In continuing this particular blog series addressing substance dualism and its compatibility with dualist interactionism, I am posting comments by LaRose citing Ralph C. S. Walker:
Walker states that on the basis of reason, the mental cannot solely be the physical. . . . reason provides sufficient justification to believe the mind is not physical since the process of reason interrupts the chain of physical determinism. . . . what reason does is “moves minds” towards certain ideas and behavior. In this way, no matter our physical being, should reason exist ontologically, then no conception of mind remains within the bounds of physical determinism solely: there must be a mental outside the physical to be moved by reason. . . . Further, having a separate, mental existence sets one up to subscribe to an enduring self beyond the physical. . . . Substance dualism holds a simple and profound answer for these observations of conscious life: the soul, the mind, the self is that which feels. We are more than the collection of qualitative phenomenal experiences, but that which experiences them.
I am working to present compelling evidence for dualist interactionism between the immaterial mind, including the Mind of God, and the material synaptic networks of the human brain. Cognition by the mind is a causal force that generates action. I will continue to post more recent data from the neurosciences and neuropsychology to substantiate this perspective going forward.