Descartes Mind Vs Body

Beginning with the passage, whether the body is divisible, while the mind is indivisible, and the issue, stating that if the mind and the body are distinct. For Descartes premises, he understands himself to be a single, unified thing. What he states is that the body is by its nature divisible, while the mind is indivisible. What I’m going to discuss in this passage is that the mind is divisible as well as the body. While reading this passage I noticed how the mind and the body are distinct.I think the mind is divisible because there are mental disorders and drugs that could divide the mind. Mental disorders that can divide one’s mind would be Alzheimer’s, being bipolar, and Tourette’s syndrome. Drugs can also divide one’s mind through consciousness, …show more content…
With Alzheimer’s memory loss is a symptom resulting in forgetting some of your daily life routines. While reading about Alzheimer’s, Alzheimer’s affects the memory, your thinking, and your behavior. Alzheimer’s causes people to forget half of their life memories, loved ones, and who they even are. Bipolarity, divides the mind because you have many periods of higher moods and moods like anger, sadness or depression. Having these different moods, causes your mind to divide into two personas. Not only that, but it causes you to act differently with yourself and others. Tourette’s syndrome divides the mind because this syndrome causes one to make repeated sudden movements or sounds that cannot be controlled. Tourette’s divides the mind causing you to have obsessional thoughts. Therefore, when having these thoughts, your mind is controlling how you think and how you move. WithTourette’s you make moves or sounds that you yourself don not want to do. It is a syndrome where you could say you are against yourself. Dealing with all these mental disorders we could see that the mind could be …show more content…
Descartes says it’s because the body is by its nature, divisible, while the mind is indivisible. With the mind not being divisible, Descartes says that he can only understand himself to be a single, unified thing. He mentioned how cutting off a foot, arm, or other limb would not take anything away from the mind. Cutting of an arm would have no effect on the mind because you can live without an arm, foot, or limb. Whether if you remove someone’s mind you have removed half of their memory they had. When someone has some type of memory loss or something it causes one to have their mind to divide, so this can be seen as the mind being divisible not