Does anyone actually support “Cartesian dualism” in 2022? Academics seem to frequently position themselves against it but I haven't encountered evidence that this position actually exists. "Nemo sic cogitat, ergo non est."

I am also sympathetic to dualism.

"Until someone can show me how physical matter can create intentionality, qualia, and meaning, it looks like mind-stuff is different."

For me, this shows how crude the model of classifying things and building concepts based on physical and mental stuff distinctions is and how it fails to represent and help us make sense of things, especially when analysis goes into details.

I find a good metaphor/example of this in interpretable machine learning, which I recently know of. It basically fits a simple understandable model like decision tree to sophisticated blackbox model like deep neural network. The sophisticated model is like stuff that we try to understand and simple model interpretes it to help us make sense. But any sense we derive from the simple model shows nothing about the essence of sophisticated ones just because decision tree is completely not a neural network. Therefore, simple models can explain something in the real thing, but I am okay they don't fully explain the real thing.

I am sorry I am not a philosopher. I would like to diverge a bit to ask whether are there people who propose other models to completely give up talking about and base their models on physical and mind distinction and why their views didn't become mainstream.

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