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One view of the mind says that connected to every living body--or perhaps only to living bodies that are able to think and be self-conscious--is a separate, non-physical thing we can call a soul. The body is one thing, a physical thing; and the soul is another, independent and non-physical thing. While the body is alive, the soul is connected to it, but it's possible for the soul to go on existing even after the body is destroyed.
The view of the mind is called dualism, because its proponents think that there are two kinds of things: physical things and mental things (souls). The souls are not made up of physical parts. In principle, they can exist independently of any bodies or other physical things. To think or have feelings requires you to have one of these souls.
So the dualist thinks there are two kinds of things. Other theorists think there is only one kind of thing.
?The materialist or physicalist says that the only things there are are all material or physical things.......

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