Yes, but no such “proof” exists. Thus our conundrum. 
The physical universe is fully inaccessible, except by conceptualizing it as a pattern generator, with pattern properties that our mind can model.
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I’m not arguing against the internal logical consistency of dualism - Descartes was a smart cookie, obviously. I’m arguing against the usefulness of dualism as a practical matter. The logical destination of dualistic ideology is nihilism.
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If understood as a statement about the relationship between mind and physical ground truth, Cartesian dualism is false, both pragmatically (it leads to false predictions) and epistemologically. I don't see evidence that Cartesians are more nihilist than the rest of the population
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Plus, our cortical representations of objective reality can be tested and measured against the cortical representations of other people. This redundant empirical process gives us a more refined aggregate understanding of reality.
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