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Minds and Machines
Title: Minds and Machines
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 427 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Minds and Machines
1) Briefly describe Descartes view of the relation between mind and
body. What, if anything, is wrong with this view?
Rene Descartes view of the relation between the mind and body, is a very
complicated one. However if one was to put it simply, Descartes view is that
the mind and the body are separate substances (Grayling 2001 p, 1). This
idea of the mind and body being separate entities is known as “Dualism”.
Descartes claimed that because …showed first 75 words of 427 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 427 total…the mind is a internal
substance and the body is external, as Descartes proposed, how then is it
possible for an internal substance to interact with an external substance, as
seen in these examples? Whilst problems with the Dualist theory, such as the
one mentioned above do exist, it is widely accepted that Rene Descartes
played a pivotal role in beginning to answer the question of how the mind
and body are related (Grayling 2001 p,1).
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