ABSTRACT
The mind-body problem focuses on the makeup of conscious beings, most importantly of human persons. Put crudely, it asks “What am I and my conscious life made of?” Currently, there are two main answers to this question: physicalism and dualism. Physicalism claims that a human being is completely physical. Dualism maintains that a human being is both body and mind. Dualism itself comes in two major varieties: substance dualism and mere property/event dualism. Physicalism comes in different varieties as well, with type identity and functionalist versions most prominent.
