nonphysical

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Physical bodies are treated as vessels; the “real” you is in some nonphysical self that can jump blithely around.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Thomas Hobbes’s view of the soul is materialistic, whereas Descartes’s view of the soul is nonphysical.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

They’re exactly what they sound like: nonphysical versions of a common form of state identification.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021

Overall, less than 20% of physical workers in the United States are 55 or older, the study found, compared with 44% of nonphysical workers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2020

There is no reason—so Watson argues—to suppose that their knowledge IS anything beyond the habits shown in this behaviour: the inference that other people have something nonphysical called "mind" or "thought" is therefore unwarranted.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand