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Property Dualism

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Property dualism: one substance—physical—but two kinds of properties: physical properties and irreducibly mental ones, arising from brains.

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One canvas, two descriptions: the painting's chemistry and its beauty. The brain, similarly, may bear properties physics does not list.

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Keeping one substance dodges the interaction problem's hardest form—but how physical stuff yields mental properties remains owed.