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there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...
infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...
is located in the brain, shouldnt he be thinking, Im inside looking at my body (Dennett). Unfortunately, he cannot make that switc...
Those who continue to be exposed to high levels of stress for prolonged periods of time end up being distressed. The authors state...
In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...
having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...
"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...
This research report examines rationalizations used by Descartes and his own belief system. Various issues are explored and scient...