week 5 - Dualism and Physicalism

The major difference between in Dualism and Physicalism that dualism believe that mind and body are separate and physicalism believe that everything is connect to physical beings such as our mind is connect to brain and so on... i tend to agree with Descartes dualism that mind and body are separate. It is true that it seem our mind is closely connected to our physical part such as brain or heart (in emotional level) but there are some phenomenon occurrence that totally separate mind and body. For example - Coma patients , some of their body is 100% recover and yet they are not able to comeback to conscious because their mind is not there. Also there is a saying mind over matter which somewhat prove to separate mind and body. One example would be - meditation to ease physical pain or if i should say separate from body pain. example some people experiment with meditation to ease their physical pain. according to the researches, that if you are focus or concentrate enough on meditation the physical reality start to separate from mind reality. I myself experienced a few, not that i have try on major pain or anything but this is what i found in my experiences - in meditation position if you sit long enough, because of the position the back or the knees will soar or hurt but if you concentrate enough and focus enough you will find that soon you will not feel those pain anymore. I also found that if you focus and concentrate enough you will not hear outside sounds, your physical body would still hear but you won't know cuz your mind is concentrate on one thing. Also in some religion teachings that they describe that there are dimension that exist with bodies only and there are some dimension that exist with minds only. in my opinion, the mind and body come a pair at the beginning but as we grow older the mind and body can be separable. that is why we are able to do organ transplant surgeries like heart transfer. if a heart that is from one body can transfer to another than i believe the mind and the body are separate because if the heart and mind are attached how can a heart be able to transfer to another mind and live on?