Agree or disagree?

Read the sentences and chose if you are agree or disagree.

Results:

A1	B	A2
Agree	Disagree
	Agree	Disagree
Agree	Disagree
	Agree	Disagree
Agree	Disagree
	Agree	Disagree
Agree	Disagree
	Agree	Disagree
Agree	Disagree
	Agree	Disagree
3	7	0

A1+A2= 3      B=7             Dualism

Make the same activity to 2 classmates of second grade.

Results: both they have a dualistic thinking.

Explain if the next phrases are dualistic o physicalistic ideas. 

1. The physical world is the only kind of reality there is

physicalism because is the ontological thesis that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical,or that everything supervenes on the physical.

2. The mind is something nonphysical yet real

dualism because is the position that mind is non-physical, it compares a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter,  mind is something non physical but is truth that it exists and is not physical because its job is to process things that are not tangibles, so for  that do not have to be something physical.

3. The mind is nothing more than a word that refers to the sum of those cognitive activities produced by the brain

physicalism because dualism says that reality contains both mental and material things, brain is the physic part and mind is the mental part, but physicalism see those partsas one and the phrase take the brain and mind as the same thing and that is against dualism

4. The mind and the brain interact even though they are different entities

dualism because as I have said before, for dualism the physical part and mental conform the reality, so eventough both are different, together make real all the things.

5. When I make a decision the immediate cause of this event is the physical events occurring in my brain

physicalism because the doctrine says  "matter is the sole reality" and  we can infer that,if the resulting action is real, that means that is physical, then the event which makes that possible have to be also a physical event . If the result exists, the thing which originate that result hae to be real too.

6. The act of making a mental decision is not a physical event,nor does it have a physical cause

dualism, reality is caused by the mental actions that gives rise to phisical actions

7. A physical event can be caused only by another physical event

physicalism Definitely  the only reality that exists is that one which is caused by another which exists so if it exists it is physical, because then we can touch that, , the things we are able to touch are the only ones which are real.

8. An act of my will is not a physical event, but it can cause my body to perform some physical action

Dualism, mental events cause physical evets because first the information must be process in the mental zone and then they are executed by the physical part.

9. Even if we can not accomplish this as yet, everything that a person does or thinks or feels is capable of a scientific explanation

physicalism because even without knowing the whole brain, it could be understood by the physical part, like connections of neurons or studing the parts of the brain

10. The mind and its activities will never be completely explained by the science of the brain

dualism because a mental activity can not be study with scientific aparats, mental parts can not be watch and can not be touch.