Neutral monism is the view that
MentalEvents and
PhysicalEvents are both to be reduced (see
ReducTion) to aspects of some neutral stuff, which stuff considered by itself is neither physical nor mental. Neutral monism was introduced by the great 17th-century Jewish-Dutch philosopher, BaruchSpinoza
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