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  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Intuitive Physics

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  • Humans intuitively believe thoughts can cause bodily actions.
  • Intuitive physics posits that only physical bodies can interact.
  • This creates a potential conflict regarding how non-physical thoughts command physical bodies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate laypeople's perceptions of mind-body causation.
  • To explore how the perceived physicality of mental states influences their causal efficacy.
  • To understand the conditions under which mind-body interactions become remarkable.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Compared perceptions of thoughts versus percepts (e.g., thinking vs. seeing a cup) regarding their detectability and "afterlife" presence.
  • Experiments 2-5: Assessed the perceived likelihood of thoughts versus percepts causing behavior.
  • Further experiments examined the impact of behavioral salience and the nature of the cause (mental vs. physical state).

Main Results:

  • Thoughts were perceived as more ethereal (less detectable in the body, more afterlife-associated) than matched percepts.
  • Thoughts were considered less likely to cause behavior than percepts.
  • Mind-body causation was deemed more remarkable when involving salient bodily consequences (arm movement) versus mere brain activation.
  • Remarkability of epistemic causation depended on attribution to mental (thinking) rather than physical (activation) states.

Conclusions:

  • Laypeople perceive a distinction in the physicality of thoughts versus percepts.
  • The perceived physical interaction is crucial for attributing causal power to mental states.
  • These findings suggest that mind-body interactions can evoke a latent dualist dissonance in people's reasoning.