QUESTION 21 According to Descartes, nonhuman animals could not experience pain b

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QUESTION 21 According to Descartes, nonhuman animals could not experience pain because of what? O Nonhuman animals are like complex organic machines O They have souls, but they have sensitive soul rather than rational soul O God did not want them to suffer O Because he was a nonhuman animal QUESTION 22 that says that mental events and physical events do not interact, they are perfectly c O Oocasionalism O Parallelism O Idealism QUESTION 23 The biggest problem with David Hume's argument against miracles is what? His argument defines away even the possibility of ever observing an unlikely event He is an atheist O His conclusion does not follow from the premises O His definition of miracles is wrong QUESTION 24 The problem with limiting our knowledge to things we can know through physical observation is w O Then we have Iimited ourselves from ever knowing anything non-physical that might exist O Science is falibie and must aways be heid ooen to further evidence O Science is funded by government and corporations so you can't trust the outcomes Science is done by falible human beings who bring their biases to their experments QUESTION 25 The arguments aganas hearceatn experiences mght fall victim so the faise dilemma fellacy be They assume na: e vent must oe otysca OR spritua, but not ooth

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According to Descartes, non human animals are complex organic machines like clocks, which move and emit noise, and do not have no feelings, all of whose actions can be fully explained without any reference to the operation of mind in thinking. So he believes that non human animals therefore do not experience pain. Parallelism is a form of dualism which denies any interaction between mind and body. Parallelism suggests that although there is a correlation between mental and physical events but there is no causal connection. The body and mind do not interact with each other but simply run alongside one another, in parallel, and there happens to be a correspondence between the two but neither causes each other. Parallelism states that mental and physical events are just perfectly coordinated by God. His argument defines away even the possibilities of ever observing an unlikely events .Hume's theory "fails to take into account all the probabilities involved" and "he incorrectly assumes that miracles are intrinsically highly improbable

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