Part two, listeners questions.

First of all, thank you very much for Philip and David to coming in today and giving

such a great description

of both of your points of view. We have a bunch of questions from people on Twitter, but before we

get on to that, I just wanted to raise one question about something that was raised in the discussion,

which was, why do we think that dualism seems to be the most intuitive response to this issue.

Why is it that it appears to be the average way of thinking?

Okay, so as I said a few times earlier, there seems to be a strong intuition in favour of dualism,

despite all the arguments, which, I mean, Philip agrees about this, are against dualism.

You end up with epigenomenalism.

There's strong arguments for avoiding dualism, but people, including us, I think, can't

help but think in dualist terms often.

So there's a kind of psychological, sociological question.

What's the explanation for this

resistance to monism in our kind of unreflective thinking? There's quite a lot of literature on this,

and I'll just mention a few of the suggestions that have been put forward very quickly.

So one thought is that it's part of our historical culture.

Many of us live in societies that have religious history, and religion certainly separates the mind and the brain and maybe that

lives on in most people's thinking. Another answer is the Yale psychologist wrote a book called

Descartes' baby. He thinks we're all natural-born duelists. He thinks the way the brain divides the world very early on, I mean,

with very young children into the minded, the sentient parts of the world, the inanimate parts of the world,

very deep in our thinking, and we can't really count on something being in both categories like the mind brain.

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