Mind and body
The mind is the part of you that thinks, feels, wants and remembers. Descartes (1641) argued it is something other than the body - then how do they act on each other? Others say the mind is what the brain does - then why does any of it feel like something?
Depth 1 · Foundation
You can give the two answers to what a mind is, Descartes' reason for the first, and the puzzle for each.
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You can give the two answers to what a mind is, Descartes' reason for the first, and the puzzle for each.
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What's still between you and Mind and body, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.
- 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 7ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
- 8ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
- 9Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
- 10PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 11EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 13What science can't answerDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 14Questions about what is realDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
- 15Things and their propertiesDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
- 16Two kinds of samenessDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
- 17Identity over timeDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
- 18Personal identityDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
- 19Mind and bodyDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
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