Editing Mind–body dualism (section)

===Argument from neuroscience===
{{anchor|Argument from brain scans' ability to discern mental states}}
{{see also|Neurophilosophy|Neuroscience of free will|Neuroscience of free will#Criticisms|Thought identification}}
In some contexts, the decisions that a person makes can be detected up to 10 seconds in advance by means of scanning their brain activity.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain |journal=Nature Neuroscience |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=543–545 |doi=10.1038/nn.2112 |pmid=18408715 |date=May 2008 |last1=Haynes |first1=John-Dylan |last2=Heinze |first2=Hans-Jochen |last3=Brass |first3=Marcel |last4=Soon |first4=Chun Siong|s2cid=2652613 }}</ref> Subjective experiences and covert attitudes can be detected,<ref name=readstates>{{cite journal|last=Haynes|first=John-Dylan|author2=Rees, Geraint|title=Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans|journal=Nature Reviews Neuroscience|date=July 2006|volume=7|pages=523–534|doi=10.1038/nrn1931|issue=7|pmid=16791142|s2cid=16025026}}</ref> as can mental imagery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://despolab.berkeley.edu/files/publications/pdf/imagerot.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-06-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921093335/http://despolab.berkeley.edu/files/publications/pdf/imagerot.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-21}}</ref> This is strong [[empirical evidence]] that [[cognitive processes]] have a physical basis in the brain.<ref name=Cognition>{{cite journal|last=Dehaene|first=Stanislas|author2=Naccache, Lionel|title=Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: basic evidence and a workspace framework|journal=Cognition|date=April 2001|volume=79|issue=1–2|pages=1–37|doi=10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00123-2 |pmid=11164022|s2cid=1762431}}<!--|access-date=21 February 2013--></ref><ref name="Dehaene">{{cite book|last=Dehaene|first=Stanislas|publisher=MIT|title=The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness|year=2002|page=4|isbn=978-0262541312}}</ref>