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Many of these attempts to redress dualism are strategically mistaken in the sense that (a) the research agenda, that is the questions that investigators are trying to answer, is determined by an adherence to some kind of underlying dualism and (b) they are therefore searching for a bridging theory that spans between dualism and monism and explains away the questions of dualism in monistic terms. In other words, much of cognitive science is predicated on the assumption that dualism can be reduced to monism if only we had the correct bridging theory to it with. All of the theories suggest that there is some way to demarcate that which is mindful from that which is not. They thereby change the identity of what is dualistic, but do not erase the essential dualism.
