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When Descartes wrote:
"The mind exists just as long as there is a consciousness, which is not an attribute of matter"
was he saying that consciousness (and the mind) can continue even if the material body ceases to exist?
I am quite certain that he believed the reverse to be true, that the body could exist without consciousness or a mind, but I am not confident on what he believed about the other half of the idea.
"The mind exists just as long as there is a consciousness, which is not an attribute of matter"
was he saying that consciousness (and the mind) can continue even if the material body ceases to exist?
I am quite certain that he believed the reverse to be true, that the body could exist without consciousness or a mind, but I am not confident on what he believed about the other half of the idea.