Self, death and Afterlife

Question 1

Qualia

Answer 1

the qualities of a conscious experience

For example: what is feels like to experience a colour or smell

Question 2

Monism

Answer 2

all reality is made up of one sort of substance, mental or physical

Question 3

materialism

Answer 3

all reality is made up of a physical substance

this rejects the idea of a operate soul from the body

Question 4

Substance dualism

Answer 4

Descartes

the belief that the body and soul a qualitatively distinct. they are completely different but somehow interact