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Accepted manuscript

The 21st Century Mind-Body Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2026

Carrie Figdor*
Affiliation:
University of Iowa, carrie-figdor@uiowa.edu
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Abstract

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This paper articulates how recent advances in comparative behavioral and biological research are changing the nature of the mind/body problem from a human mind/human body problem to a problem of conceptualizing and organizing diverse types of minds in a hierarchical relational structure that is non-contingently related to phylogeny. It also discusses the impact of this refinement on our assessments of modal claims about possible artificial (AI) consciousness.

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Symposia Paper
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Philosophy of Science Association