
Discussing the Cartesian Error
Mind Matters
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The Problem With Internalism in Neuroscience
There's a whole method in here that I kind of spell out in the paper that seems pretty clear across some of the more popular prominent sort of neuroscientists of the self. But this underlying philosophical question that Descartes and the Cartesians are right about is that there is the sense in which these two don't touch. We can't simply predicate mental properties of neural properties because what ends up happening, they end up saying things that not only become philosophically fascinating but problematic.
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