Dual-Aspect Monism: A Metaphysical Proposition
In previous posts, I had examined the schools of idealism and materialism and explained why both were unsatisfactory in many regards. But as previously mentioned, dualism fails to explain how something of an abstract, incorpereal existence can interact with something of a concrete, corpereal existence. But if all we are left with is monism, yet materialism and idealism are not satisfactory, what else is left. One theory that has gained some attention in recent years is dual-aspect monism, which regards both the mental and the physical to be two different aspects of the same substance. This theory explains the interaction between the physical and the mental. Let us examine further. Dual-aspect monism, as the name implies, is a monistic school of thought. This being the case, it rejects the notion that reality consists of different substances; everything is of one kind. The appearance of different substances, such as physical and mental, are in reality two-aspects of the same thing. The...