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by bluekeybox 5415 days ago
Why philosophy? If you keep clicking, you actually end up in a loop: Philosophy -> Reason -> Human nature -> Thought -> Consciousness -> Mind -> Panpsychism -> Philosophy -> ...

I'd say, of the above, "mind", "thought", and "reason" are pretty basic -- you cannot have philosophy without a mind, for one (though you can probably have a mind without philosophy).

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Saying "you cannot have philosophy without a mind" itself is one of the many philosophical concepts of mind-matter dualism.
And saying what you just said is using reason.
Reason or intuition! That's another 'philosophical' problem!