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Consciousness and rationality are two significant and defining characteristics of human thought. They are what distinguish humans from any other animal. When attempting to understand the relationship between body and mind, one approach—the argument from generality of thought—uses the quality of generality to arrive at the conclusion that thoughts are immaterial. It does so by first examining the relative specificity of thoughts, explaining that some thoughts are more general than others. For example, the thought of a red circle is more specific and less general than the thought of a mere coloured circle. This distinction is the very first premise: some thoughts are general. The second premise can be arrived at by way of a subordinate argument that’s first premise is: all awareness that is general contains general properties intentionally. This means that a general awareness contains within it all the general properties of that awareness. The second premise of the......

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