Compare And Contrast Cartesian Dualism

One of the main differences that sets the body and mind apart are the qualities they hold. Descartes sees material bodies as spatial, material qualities, and public, and minds as nonspatial, distinctively mental qualities, and private (Cartesian Dualism). These terms to describe them are opposite of each other which then could explain how it is so hard to connect the mind and body as they are exact opposites. It is hard to see how two things are so different somehow work together. The body is something that humans have been studying for centuries; it is purely physical and is something that can really be seen with the human eye and tested easily. The mind is not as easy to actually study because every person is different. A mind is also not physical and can been seen or tested, it is private as Descartes would say. This leaves a lot of room for mistakes when people study the interaction between the …show more content…
Your big toe could be amputated, yet you still might continue to experience the very same kind of throbbing pain you experienced prior to its amputation, and this pain might seem to you to be in a region at the end of your foot formerly occupied by your big toe. This suggests that although we experience pains and other sensations as occurring in various bodily locations, it need not follow that experiences occur at those locations.
Although, for an amputee, there limb is no longer there, they still somehow feel the pain of where the amputated limb once was. This clearly cannot be physical as the limb where the pain occurs is no longer there. So, this has to be more of mental pain or something within the mind that causes the body to feel like there is pain. This shows how there can clearly be a disconnect between the mind and the body (Cartesian