True. But there's others ways to look at dualism within the larger framework. There's no question that we have mental phenomena ( in an experiential context ) and there's no question there is material phenomena ( in the classic context ), and even if we say that a conscious experience is composed of some sort of physical thing, be it waves, or particles, or what have you, none of that explains the nature of the experience. Hypothetically all the physical stuff could interact and cause us to behave the way we do without there being any consciousness associated with it.
Hypothetically even if we could see the "stuff" ( neurons, chemicals, electrical flashes ) or measure the waves or whatever the experience is physically composed of, we still wouldn't see the conscious experience. It is this experience that is separate from the rest and can be thought of as the mental component of dualism in a different sense than classical dualism that holds that mental "stuff" is different from material "stuff". I imagine you've already got that in perspective, but just thought I'd lay it down for the sake of clarity for any other readers who might happen along. So dualism isn't really dead. It's just evolved.
Sorry man, I’m not following. I think dualism is quite dead, or more accurately was never alive to begin with.
There is no mental “stuff” just like the program running on your computer isn’t “stuff.” It’s a very specific configuration of “stuff” that interacts with the outside world and itself in a very stateful way.
The state in execution is likely what consciousness is. It’s not separate from the physical universe any more than mail.app on your MacBook is separate from the physical universe - it’s that mail.app is a very different beast when it’s unloaded and exists as bits on a hard drive, vs mail.app when you’re running it and it exists in execution and you’re typing into it.
Turn the computer off while you’re typing into mail.app and it goes away. Along with the state it was running in, and you have to reboot it. You’ve effectively killed the mail.app executing thing, and you spawn a new variant of it when you reload it. But the original state it was in was gone.
But here’s the thing - if you grab a state snapshot of mail.app running in memory, reload that, poof! It’s all back exactly the way it was before. Because you’ve grabbed a snap of the state machine in action.
And I’d wager the exact same thing could happen with our minds. No dualism needed, just systems thinking.