Agency Arguments: Do reasoning and moral choice prove you have a nonphysical mind?

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Agency Arguments: Do reasoning and moral choice prove you have a nonphysical mind?
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Rational agency is what we call our reasoning ability, and it seems to be different from mimicry, but the two aren't physically different. This seems to show we are non-physical. Moral agency is our faculty for deliberating between goods. Again, this seems physically identical to mimicry, so its existence seems to show we are non-physical.

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Further Reading

Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind, James D. Madden