The"construction"metaphor: how to create the world? Suppose there were a god as the Creator: What He should do in order to create everything in the world that we know? 1. Physicalism: He should create the physical stuff only. then the mental stuff would emerge automatically 2. Dualism: He should create the physical stuff on the one hand the mental stuff on the other. 3. Neutral monism the neutral stuff to be provided first, then both the mind and the body could be constructed out of themThe “construction” metaphor: how to create the world? • Suppose there were a God as the Creator: What He should do in order to create everything in the world that we know? • 1. Physicalism: He should create the physical stuff only. Then the mental stuff would emerge automatically. • 2. Dualism: He should create the physical stuff on the one hand, the mental stuff on the other. • 3. Neutral monism: the neutral stuff to be provided first, then both the mind and the body could be constructed out of them