Descartes Mind and Body
Descartes believes in the separation of mind and body. He believes the mind and body are two individual objects. Descartes believes in the substance dualism of our mind and bodies. There are many reasons that support the mind and body could be connected.
Before Descartes separates the mind and body he realizes that he exists. Descartes doubts his existence throughout most of his writings. He comes to the realization that he is real through his line “I think therefore I am.” This is his most popular line. He is a thinking thing because he doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses and also imagines and senses. His thoughts cannot be taken away from him ever. He will be alive and real until he stops thinking. …show more content…
How does he know that what he is dreaming about isn’t happening in real life? There is no distinction between his dreams and reality. Our dreams are based off of things we have experienced and sensed in our life. He uses painters as an example. They can paint abstract shapes but they will always have parts of the first object in them. Even if they are trying to create a new thing it is usually a mixture of shapes, colors, and objects. We know these shapes and colors are universal things. These universal things will always be the same no matter what. We could be awake or sleeping but blue will always be blue and 2 + 3 will always be 5. He can think about these things so he knows that he at least exists …show more content…
He believes we can do this without a mind. I think our well-oiled machines need a mind behind them. Machines have a control center and a brain behind the works. Even if it is just to set them up. When something goes wrong there needs to be help. The mind is this for the body. The mind thinks of strategies for our bodies to make problems better. Our brains control our bodily functions and our responses to problems. Our minds are our thinking machines. They are in our brains and they help us solve these problems. If we sprain our ankle a nerve impulse will be sent up to the brain and it will rely the feeling of pain back down. This works one part of our mind but then our mind thinks of what to do next. We will go back and ice it and rest it. We will see the doctor if we have too. We won’t walk on it for days. This is all part of our mind that would not have been used if our minds were not connected to the pain in our
Descartes believes in the separation of mind and body. He believes the mind and body are two individual objects. Descartes believes in the substance dualism of our mind and bodies. There are many reasons that support the mind and body could be connected.
Before Descartes separates the mind and body he realizes that he exists. Descartes doubts his existence throughout most of his writings. He comes to the realization that he is real through his line “I think therefore I am.” This is his most popular line. He is a thinking thing because he doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses and also imagines and senses. His thoughts cannot be taken away from him ever. He will be alive and real until he stops thinking. …show more content…
How does he know that what he is dreaming about isn’t happening in real life? There is no distinction between his dreams and reality. Our dreams are based off of things we have experienced and sensed in our life. He uses painters as an example. They can paint abstract shapes but they will always have parts of the first object in them. Even if they are trying to create a new thing it is usually a mixture of shapes, colors, and objects. We know these shapes and colors are universal things. These universal things will always be the same no matter what. We could be awake or sleeping but blue will always be blue and 2 + 3 will always be 5. He can think about these things so he knows that he at least exists …show more content…
He believes we can do this without a mind. I think our well-oiled machines need a mind behind them. Machines have a control center and a brain behind the works. Even if it is just to set them up. When something goes wrong there needs to be help. The mind is this for the body. The mind thinks of strategies for our bodies to make problems better. Our brains control our bodily functions and our responses to problems. Our minds are our thinking machines. They are in our brains and they help us solve these problems. If we sprain our ankle a nerve impulse will be sent up to the brain and it will rely the feeling of pain back down. This works one part of our mind but then our mind thinks of what to do next. We will go back and ice it and rest it. We will see the doctor if we have too. We won’t walk on it for days. This is all part of our mind that would not have been used if our minds were not connected to the pain in our