Cartesian dualism

From allaboutphilosophy.org at [[1]] we find this informational quote:

What is Cartesian dualism?

Dualism is an ancient concept that was deeply rooted in Greek thought. However, long before that, the ancient scriptures taught that mankind was made in God’s image and that Adam needed the spirit breathed into him before becoming a living soul. Almost 2000 years after Plato and Aristotle reasoned that the human mind or soul could not be identified with the physical body, Rene Descartes reinforced this concept and gave it a name, dualism. The word “Cartesius” is simply the Latin form of the name Descartes. Consequently, Cartesian dualism is simply Descartes concept of dualism.

Descartes’ famous saying epitomizes the dualism concept. He said, “cogito ergo sum,” “I reflect therefore I am.” Descartes held that the immaterial mind and the material body are two completely different types of substances and that they interact with each other. He reasoned that the body could be divided up by removing a leg or arm, but the mind or soul were indivisible.

This concept is difficult to accept for those with a secular humanist, materialist, and evolutionist worldview because accepting it is accepting supernaturalism. Consequently, Bible believers accept dualism and people with the opposite worldview find themselves obligated to reject it.

Awaretheory is not a dualistic theory even though it may appear to break down the study of conscious existence into physical, mental and knowledge aspects. Awaretheory does not predict a mental substance. It's stance is that the correct structure and functioning of matter produces consciousness and ixperiencitness, they do not exist independently of matter, energy and the progression of time. Functioning or change requires the progression of time. There is an analogy with a computer: the processing that a computer does is not the computer itself because a computer can process information in many different ways. A computer can exist and not process information like a body can exist without producing consciousness and ixperiencitness both without a soul, but a computer does not have or need a soul to do what it does thus nor does a consciousness producing body need a mental substance or soul to produce consciousness and ixperiencitness. Many things that exist seem to have dual or multiple properties. For instance like the computer, television, radio, phone, many other electronic devices, body organs, or even the color red. Photons are not red, cones in the retina are not red, neurons are not red, yet neurons together produce the conscious concept of red. Photons differ by frequency, cones chemically react to certain frequencies of light, neuron react to chemical stimulations from other neurons. Nonetheless things are red because of the processing of the brain. Red is not the same in all brains. This means that red does not have the same effect on all brains. Which means that red can be much more than just red when combined with other conscious concepts.