Mind Matter Problem

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The Mind Matter Problem The Mind/Body Problem has been debated for centuries and up until this day the relationship between mind and body raises questions amongst scientists, psychologists, and scientists. This is perhaps one of the oldest problems in the history of philosophy. In particular, the well-known philosopher and mathematician, René Descartes have struggled with this issue centuries ago. Through his theoretic concept “mind-matter dualism,” he tries to explain that there is a distinction between the mind and the body. His epistemological position is that the mind and body are of two separate realities, the mental world and the physical world. He also implies that the mind and body are completely two different entities; the mind is a non-extended thinking substance and the body is an extended, non-thinking substance. This theoretical concept is difficult to grasp, but it is what provoked the thoughts and questions of the past and present mind/body problem. As humans, we have minds and we have bodies; how could the two exist in different realities? Can our minds actually be distinct entities from our bodies? Are our minds able to survive without our body? Are our bodies’ simply material objects? Many people of our current world would answer by saying “No.” Furthermore, although anyone with common sense would know the mind is an essentially thinking thing. Descartes believes that the body is an essentially extended thing of the mind, which occupies its own space and reality. How can one solve the relationship between mind and body problem? Descartes expanded his thesis and entailed that dual causal interaction between mind and body (two fairly different manners of substances) causes the mind to affect the body’s actions and vice versa; the body’s actions affect the minds thought process. Descartes called this solution, “Casual Interactionism,” which
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