Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) / quote 97 of 138
The illusion of dualism
Once again it seems to me the illusion of dualism is generated by misunderstanding a very real distinction. There really is a distinction between those irreducible features of the world that have a first-person or subjective ontology and those that do not. But it is a deep mistake to suppose that that real distinction is the same as the old-time distinction between the mental and the physical, between res cogitans and res extensa, or that the subjective phenomena are something over and above the systems in which they are realized.