In "Life After Life" Charlie Says, "I Wasn't Able to Move

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Essay

In "Life After Life" Charlie says, "I wasn't able to move objects in any way, which is kind of puzzling when you think of it. Of course, my soul didn't have a body anymore. But if a soul can't move objects, how does it ever move a body?" Explain in a bit of detail what philosophical problem Charlie's remarks are bringing up.

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Definitions:

Time

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Instrumental Conditioning

Another term for operant conditioning, a learning process in which behavior is modified by the reinforcing or punishing consequences that follow.

Operant Conditioning

is a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.