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http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/substancedualism.html
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Perhaps the most famous proponent of substance dualism was Descartes, who cashed out the distinction between minds and bodies as follows:
Minds are things that think but lack spatial magnitude, and bodies are things that have spatial magnitudes, but don't think.
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Just a thought, our evolutionary ancestors had bodies, but these were only simple one celled creatures. I would have thought the mind, (consciousness) was something that the body developed along the lines of pain, to prevent injury.
What do you think consciousness is?
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Perhaps the most famous proponent of substance dualism was Descartes, who cashed out the distinction between minds and bodies as follows:
Minds are things that think but lack spatial magnitude, and bodies are things that have spatial magnitudes, but don't think.
End Quote
Just a thought, our evolutionary ancestors had bodies, but these were only simple one celled creatures. I would have thought the mind, (consciousness) was something that the body developed along the lines of pain, to prevent injury.
What do you think consciousness is?