Iris Berent

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Are You a Closet Dualist? Evidence From Brief Implicit Association Task Abstract. Do people tacitly contrast minds and bodies? To find out, here, we gauge Dualism using a brief implicit association task. Participants were asked to determine whether a target word belonged ...

Many people claim they are intuitive physicalists. We decided to test using brief import association task. Results showed strong tacit dualism.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Great symposium on consciousness intuitions and the “hard problem” with @davidchalmers.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social, and @ccolomb.bsky.social at the ASSC, Crete. Thank you Matan and Clara for organizing!

Thanks so much, Liad. Too bad we didn’t get to chat- I’m a fan!

Psychologists and philosophers come with very different priors about what counts as a useful discussion.So unless you are friends to start with, the social situation can be hard to read.

The gender-sex incongruence is partly a mind–body incongruence - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The gender-sex incongruence is partly a mind–body incongruence

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Is #dualism shaped by experiences? This new paper shows that #transgender people are far more likely to align the self with the mind than cisgender individuals. We conclude that the #sex-#gender contrast is partly a mind-body contrast.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Any shareable links to the facts here?

Consciousness Has a Psychology Problem The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

How could #consciousness arise from physical brains?
Here is why this "hard problem" is difficult. The reasons are demonstrably psychological.
A new piece in Nautilus.
nautil.us/consciousnes...

So interesting! I’d be super grateful for a copy of the poster!

Congratulations!