Interactionist Argumentative Essay

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I am exploring intelligence and consciousness and it is outside the scope of this argument to give complete answers to metaphysical questions and define ideas such as "mental", "physical", "real" or "exist." However, when examining the human brain as a complex system it is important to offer an ontological approach that accounts for “everything” that is in existence and in our experience. I take an Interactionist approach, which states that there is a physical world and a mental world that interact. Both the physical and mental world can act upon and be influenced by one another. Sir Karl Popper (1978) proposed an interesting outlook that helps to delineate between these "worlds". Popper proclaimed himself to be a "Trialist" in which he described

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