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| | mind/body problem |
 | | Nor, as Descartes argues, can it be said that thinking, feeling, imagining, etc., are different parts, since it is one and the same mind that thinks, feels, imagines, etc. The mind in this case should be thought of not as a bunch of conscious experiences but as the subject of experiences. |
 | | Now, I think that the mind/body problem can be viewed as a paradox resulting from the conflicting claims of these five statements, and the various theories of the mind/body relationship can be viewed as attempts each to deny one or more of the above theses. |
 | | The problem in a nutshell is that since people are composed of chemicals, they must be physically explicable, but yet since they have consciousness they can't. |
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