Does A Creature, Previously Unknown To Us, That Appears And Behaves As If It Feels Pain, Actually Feel Pain?

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Philosophy

 

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Jody M

 

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September 14, 2012

 

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University

 

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Substance dualism is the more extreme of the two whose main advocate was Descartes himself. When faced with the alien creature, the substance dualist may dismiss the creature as not being human and therefore obviously not having a mind and so is not feeling pain. The attribute dualist, however, is faced with a more ambiguous situation...
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The attribute dualist, however, is faced with a more ambiguous situation. She believes that the mental property of feeling pain is immaterial and not reducible to physical properties such as the behaviour indicating the pain. The attribute dualist is constrained by the unavoidable consequence of separating the mind and the body: accepting that each individual can only, through introspection, confidently recognise their own mental state...
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