A neglected “dualist” theory offers some insights:
I think the best explanation of the relationship of the mind to the brain is Aristotelian hylomorphism which is the viewpoint that the soul is the form of the body and that certain powers of the soul, particularly the intellect and will, are not generated by matter but are immaterial things—what Thomas Aquinas would call the “spirit.” But other properties of the mind, like perception and memory and imagination are physical. They are directly related to brain matter and they are generated by brain matter. I think that’s the best explanation philosophically for what we find in neuroscience.
“The mind’s reality is consistent with neuroscience” at Mind Matters News
Note: For more thoughts on hylomorphism (hylemorphism) see Michael Egnor, How can mind interact with matter? (Mind Matters News)
See also the earlier parts of the discussion: Why eliminative materialism cannot be a good theory of the mind. Thinking that the mind is simply the brain, no more and no less, involves a hopeless contradiction. How can you have a proposition that the mind doesn’t exist? That means propositions don’t exist and that means, in turn, that you don’t have a proposition.
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Why the mind cannot just emerge from the brain. The mind cannot emerge from the brain if the two have no qualities in common. In his continuing discussion with Robert J. Marks, Michael Egnor argues that emergence of the mind from the brain is not possible because no properties of the mind have any overlap with the properties of brain. Thought and matter are not similar in any way. Matter has extension in space and mass; thoughts have no extension in space and no mass.
as to this comment:
As to perception in particular. Dr. Egnor once stated that “Perception at a distance is no more inconceivable than action at a distance.”
Dr. Torley strenuously objected that perception cannot possibly occur ‘at a distance’ since a Supernova that we might be observing “ceased to exist nearly 200 millennia ago, long before the dawn of human history.”
Yet contrary to Dr. Torley’s strenuous ‘materialistic’ objections, it is found that the ‘prediction’ that Dr. Egnor made for perception, via his Aristotelian philosophy, was correct. Specifically, experiments demonstrating ‘quantum entanglement in time’ are very friendly to Dr. Michael Egnor’s (Theistic) contention (via Aristotle) that “Perception at a distance is no more inconceivable than action at a distance.”
And as the following 2017 article states, “a decision made in the present can influence something in the past.”
And to drive the point further home, in the following 2018 article Professor Crull provocatively states “entanglement can occur across two quantum systems that never coexisted,,, it implies that the measurements carried out by your eye upon starlight falling through your telescope this winter somehow dictated the polarity of photons more than 9 billion years old.”
Thus, despite Dr. Torley’s strenuous ‘materialistic’ objection to Dr. Egnor’s ‘Aristotelian prediction’ that “Perception at a distance is no more inconceivable than action at a distance.” the findings of quantum entanglement in time could care less about Dr. Torley’s materialistic objection and “implies that the measurements carried out by your eye upon starlight falling through your telescope this winter somehow dictated the polarity of photons more than 9 billion years old.”
Quantum mechanics simply has no need for materialistic and/or atheistic presuppositions,
Of further note, Dr. Egnor has further elaborated on the ‘correct’ Aristotelian philosophy for understanding quantum mechanics:
That Aristotle and Aquinas would, via the power of their own reasoning, get the basics of quantum wave collapse correct, centuries before quantum mechanics was even known about, is nothing short of stunning.
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https://strangenotions.com/body-soul-and-the-mindbrain-question/
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Materialism’s Failures: Hylemorphism’s Vindication
Part II: Materialism’s Encroachment on Science
https://strangenotions.com/materialisms-failures-hylemorphisms-vindication/
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