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  Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
  Accept or lean toward: physicalism      526 / 931 (56.4%)
  Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism  252 / 931 (27%)
  Other                                   153 / 931 (16.4%)
Not sure how you can pick "other" from those options, but there you have it. (Physicalism implies non-dualism. Non-physicalism does not imply dualism.)


> Physicalism implies non-dualism. Non-physicalism does not imply dualism.

Since they didn't ask about dualism directly, nor, as far as I can tell, any position that logically entails dualism, obviously there is no deductive implication here.

I'm making a probabilistic point - non-physicalism is heavily represented (more than a quarter) among the group Samd specified, and thus there are pretty good odds that at least one academic philosopher espouses the specific non-physicalist theory of dualism.


Yes lots of them do (e.g. Chalmers), but most of them don't by a fair margin.




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