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  • Essay / The Pros and Cons of Physical Interactionism - 1028

    The 21st century has established a foundation for furthering brain science and further explaining the neurological processes that occur in humans. The amount of material discovered by neuroscience and brain science is staggering and continues to expand. Additionally, physicalism holds that the mind is physical and that, because it is a physical form, interaction is capable of occurring between the mind and the body. This theory is supported by many facts, but the law of conservation of energy is the best supported. Interactionists claim that the mind is not physical and believe that near-death visions can explain the spiritual mind, but our minds have become adept at imagining scenes and characters believed to be real. By and large, science has been nothing but constant proof of whatever phenomenon researchers attempt to understand; therefore physicalism is best explained by science where mind and brain are synonymous and