physicalist
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- adjective
- /ˈfɪzɪkəlɪst/
- Specialized
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fisicalista
- Philosophers often debate whether a physicalist perspective can adequately explain consciousness.
We just had to take a very physicalist attitude toward it.
- We just had to take a very physicalist attitude toward it.
- So or maybe just sticking to consciousness, can you take the physicalist view?
- So we have done a good job on what we call the physicalist level for acute illness.
- At first, the even the AIS will resist that because there's a selection bias by the programmers of AI, which is physicalist.
Examples
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I've said, I've said the physicalist doesn't do very well at the attempt to explain consciousness in terms of physical processes in the brain.
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If it is a mechanistic or physicalist paradigm, there is no place for EHEs.
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We just had to take a very physicalist attitude toward it.
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We could, on the physicalist point of view, call those souls.
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So the physicalist view is wrong, and the soul must be eternal.
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So we have done a good job on what we call the physicalist level for acute illness.
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This narrative insists that even those experiences of ill bodies that cannot be explained with physicalist medicine are important and must be valued in order to bring about healing.
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Instead of diagnosing personal failure or dealing with the ambiguity of mind-body medicine, this explanation permitted the acceptance of a physicalist medical model.
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Both EHEs and the spiritual psychologies go well beyond the physicalist paradigm's limited view of reality and of human beings, other life forms, and consciousness itself.
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Falling in line with the physicalist thinking on the topic, Dr. Meyers postulated that shell shock was caused by cerebral concussions and the rupture of small blood vessels resulting from proximity to exploding shells.
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Synonyms
Relating to the idea that everything is made of matter and follows natural laws
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Physicalist comes from the word physical, which means 'relating to the body or the natural world', and the ending -ist, which marks a view or approach, like in physics the study of nature. So a physicalist description treats mind and reality as 'physical' and explains them by natural processes.