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The 21st Century Mind-Body Problem
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The 21st Century Mind-Body Problem

Carrie Figdor
Philosophy of science
08/10/2026
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2026.10274
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https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2026.10274View
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Abstract

This paper articulates how recent advances in comparative behavioral and biological research are changing the nature of the mind/body problem from a human mind/human body problem to a problem of conceptualizing and organizing diverse types of minds in a hierarchical relational structure that is non-contingently related to phylogeny. It also discusses the impact of this refinement on our assessments of modal claims about possible artificial (AI) consciousness.

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