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March 6, 2024 52 mins
Psychologists and philosophers speculated for centuries trying to understand how the conscious experience of the mind relates to the physical substrate of the body. Is the mind just the process of our gooey brains, or something more? It's our brains. But we'll unpack it all.


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    1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/mind-body-problem#:~:text=The%20mind%2Dbody%20problem%20is,of%20physical%20phenomena%20or%20not.
    2. https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/23115/what-does-the-mind-body-problem-mean#:~:text=The%20mind%2Dbody%20problem%20is%20essentially%20the%20question%20of%20whether,the%20same%20thing%20(the%20way
    3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2254848
    4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470514412.ch1
    5. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-46742-4_13
    6. https://philpapers.org/rec/GARHBA
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