Because the dualism separates states of the mind from states of the body, it causes a kind of conceptual ambiguity that makes it difficult for people to understand psychological illnesses, acknowledge ...

In this blog I want to turn to the problem we have had since Rene Descartes proposed his dualism: Res Cogitans and Res Extensa. Here Res Extensa captures his mechanistic world view in which our bodies ...

We have minds and we have bodies and never the twain shall meet. At least that’s how it feels. In 1641, Rene Descartes published his world changing Meditations on First Philosophy declaring the ...

Maybe you have seen the Facebook meme, reading “If you don’t take care of your mental health now, you will be forced to deal with physical illness later.” Perhaps you even thought “Hmm…” before ...

It was too early in the morning on a Monday to have a disparaging thought about Rene Descartes. It all started — and gathered momentum — following a voice note left for me by my clinical psychologist ...

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The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...