Overview
a) react to the prompt supplied below
Week Four Prompt: Ibn Sina's Floating Person thought experiment is intended to show the falsity of physicalism about the human mind. In this journal entry, please do one of the following: a) support or criticize Ibn Sina's argument by defending or critiquing one of its premises, b) devise your own thought experiment to defend or critique either physicalism or dualism, or c) describe a film or novel that serves as a thought experiment in the philosophy of mind. (A thought experiment is an imaginary scenario that clarifies one's intuitions on a philosophical issue.)