Thursday, June 10, 2010

Philosophy Question #1

By looking through the Canon Dune series, we find that Frank Herbert establishes definitive answers to some of philosophy's most long standing questions for the purpose of his fictional universe.

Mind Body Dualism

Canon Dune seems to reject any implication of a mind/body dualism. I state this because when it comes time for gholas to be made, any scrap of genetic material, whether a hair sample or a drop of blood, is enough to resurrect every thought and memory a person ever had. It stands then that all of the information of the mind is apparently contained in every cell of a person's body, explicitly rejecting any form of mind body dualism.

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