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An alternative agenda is to reject the essence of dualism and its problems. Rather than recasting the problems of dualism in monist form, we can reformulate the questions. Rather than, for example, trying to account for qualia in materialistic terms, one might dismiss the investigations of the nature of qualia as not being a sensible question, similar in kind to questions about the types of disease-causing witches once a germ-theory view of illness has been derived. This is essentially the approach I have taken in trying to understand the nature of mind. Without essentialism, there is no sense in asking about the essential features of mind. Without a functional dualism there is no reason to ask about the demarcation between those organisms or those systems that have minds from those that do not.
