dualist

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Using the misconceptions around scientific jargon to describe the same old dualist who-hah (that one's my own).

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Quick take

Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dualist gathered in one view.

noun

Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

noun

Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.

adjective

Of or supporting dualism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dualist.

noun

Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

noun

Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.

adjective

Of or supporting dualism.

Example sentences

Using the misconceptions around scientific jargon to describe the same old dualist who-hah (that one's my own).

People with a dualist view whose fundamental belief makes the human mind a supernatural force will give illogical arguments like this.

Bear in mind that dualism is the more 'natural thought' in historical terms, and even hardcore materialists lapse into dualist terms easily.

It's a tenable dualist position that the material brain handles sense perception while the immaterial mind handles higher level consciousness and thought.

So, blurrily, I'll just state immediately that I think they are an embodied thing (I am no Platonic dualist).

I'm not a dualist by any stretch but to claim this as evidence for materialism is mistaken.

I've met Chalmers, and read much of his oeuvre, and he's most emphatically not a dualist.

Yes, criticising the current popular models is valid, but doesn't suggesting that strong AI is impossible in theory allow a dualist or mystical view?

From a dualist pov, neurons are spatially distributed group entities too.

Many people hold a dualist core belief which precludes 'artificial consciousness'.

I'm a dualist and agreed with Chalmers on most points if I remember correctly.

I recommend the work of David Chalmers in this context because it's mathematically sound and written from the perspective of a dualist.

Quote examples

I understand you're a dualist, but from the materialist standpoint, "spatially distributed group entities" describes neurons.

More likely the words "quantum" and "microtubule vibrations" sounds sufficiently mysterious to appeal to the casual reader's dualist bias.

Even if the guy's a freaking idiot (which he is), you've gotta appreciate the way he tries to turn the "dualist" label against the people that are most opposed to dualism, while that's almost exactly what he's arguing for.

Proper noun examples

The hard problem states 1 Consciousness has a special property 2 Physical process are insufficient to have the special property 3 Zomg what is consciousness 4 We are totally not Dualists, honest The answer is either A) Conciousness is the result of a physical process Or B) You are a Dualist, stop lying to yourself.