what the non-reductive physicalist wants to say about the mental and what the biologist wants to say about life.  Life does not require a new kind of entity, that is, complex bodies have the quality of being alive if they interact with the

what the non-reductive physicalist wants to say about the mental and what the biologist wants to say about life. Life does not require a new kind of entity, that is, complex bodies have the quality of being alive if they interact with the

that for the non-reductive physicalist we're not going to introduce any new non-physical forces or entities, vital forces or psychic energy. So how can the causal properties of these higher-level things really matter? And how can it not be the

stressed the reductionistic, physicalist aspects of his theory in order to eliminate any hint of the involvement of a designer or a vital force in his explanation of the development of living things. Rather the rhetoric of Darwinism is of a

. However, this very basic physicalist assumption is of strictly limited importance. All human beings are made of the same sorts of atoms, indeed the same sorts of chemicals. We do consist of ‘nothing but’ these constituents in the

holistic and nonreductive physicalist . Jewish scholar Neil Gillman writes: Biblical anthropology knows nothing of this dualistic picture of a person which claims that a human being is a composite of two entities, a material body

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a holistic and nonreductive physicalist account of the person. However, some argue that the New Testament presupposes dualism , since there are a few passages appearing to support a doctrine of "the intermediate state." This

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