Because otherwise the answers wouldn’t require faith. Believing you know the answers to the ontological mysteries of existence is equally delusional to the faith based beliefs of a religious fanatic. Believing and knowing aren’t the same thing.
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Dualism. That mind is separate from physical reality. While I admire this model as an interesting thought experiment, as a practical matter it is an intellectual dead end. No utility.
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It makes more sense once you notice that physical reality is not "stuff in space" (res extensa). The stuff in space is the domain of perceptual representations, which are mapped in the mind into a single dynamic 3space, and exists next to thoughts and feelings (res cogitans).
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