Materialism explains the world however. Flat earth model clearly doesn&#x27;t and was obviously false even in antiquity.<p>What model does dualism provide and how can I use it to make predictions about how consciousness is embodied in physical beings. Why is it useful to presuppose the existence of a complete separate substance to explain consciousness.<p>To be brief dualism is woo woo.<p>&gt;I think everyone intuitively knows that consciousness can&#x27;t come from material things, but we convince ourselves otherwise.<p>Ok, I&#x27;ll make a sweeping unsupported statement too. Dualists have limited imagination and flawed understanding of the nature of information and computation as well as a penchant for magical thinking.