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The Mind/Body Problem

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is the Soul of Descartes?

"It really changes completely the conception of what the soul or the mind is," he says. In a way, this retreat from the mind being only concerned with the mental is in part response to the fact that as understanding how the body works more, you don't need to have such kind of mysterious accounts of of soul to explain body. "i think one point has to be said about descarts is that although he is presented as this dualisth well understood that however it is that mind and body are lated."

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