Fundamentally who are you? An animal, organism, human being. Yes, but what about your mind, your mental capacities? Can you fully explain matter without including psyche or consciousness?
Descartes believed in the existence of ‘substance’ in his investigation of the mind/body problem. Do we need a philosophical understanding of matter? Should theists become panpsychists?
Can we explain the whole world in one metaphysical vision?
Listen to this debate on the BBC podcast In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
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