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The mind-body problem has been discussed for thousands of years. Does consciousness require the supernatural?
Dr. John Searle emphatically says no. He's known for his own resolution to the mind-body problem, called "biological naturalism", and that's what we discuss today. It fits somewhere between eliminative physicalism and dualism.
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