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that said that what we do and what we decide
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and what we think and what we want
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are all have nothing to do with the physical world,
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would be embarrassed
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by the fact that the brain seems to correspond
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in intricate and elaborate ways to our mental life.
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Now, this has been known for a long time.
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Philosophers and psychologists knew for a long time
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that getting smacked in the head
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could change your mental faculties;
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that diseases like syphilis could make you deranged;
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that chemicals like caffeine and alcohol