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René Descartes is related to the concept of the mind because he theorized that innate ideas are stored within the mind, as described in [1].
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Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
claimRené Descartes believed in a natural form of interaction between the immaterial mind and the material body.
claimRené Descartes identified the pineal gland as the site of interaction between the mind and the body, primarily because it is not duplicated on both sides of the brain and thus serves as a candidate for a unique, unifying function.
claimRené Descartes was a substance dualist who believed in two distinct kinds of substance: matter, which is defined by spatial extension, and mind, which is defined by the property of thinking.
perspectiveRené Descartes' conception of the relationship between the mind and the body differed significantly from the Aristotelian tradition.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimThe modern mechanistic worldview, inaugurated by Galileo, Descartes, and Newton, established a separation between matter and mind that transformed a conceptual distinction into an ontological gulf.
claimRené Descartes proposed dualism of mind and body as a way to remove the mind from the scientific picture of the world.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe mechanistic worldview inaugurated by Galileo, Descartes, and Newton placed the problem of the mind at the center of philosophical inquiry while simultaneously marginalizing it.
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk 1 fact
claimSubstance dualism, which recognizes the distinct reality of the soul or mind and the body, has been developed by Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, the Florentine Academy, John Calvin, the Cambridge Platonists, René Descartes, John Locke, Thomas Reid, Richard Swinburne, and Alvin Plantinga.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimRené Descartes's dualism of mind and body was motivated by the desire to remove the mind from the scientific picture of the world.
Six Theories of Consciousness - Mind Matters mindmatters.ai 1 fact
claimRené Descartes referred to the mind as the soul when discussing the mind-brain problem.
Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimRené Descartes compares innate ideas to information stored in a book, where the ideas exist within the mind but require careful thinking to be revealed.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 1 fact
claimRené Descartes argued in Meditations, VI, that the mind is non-physical because the mind is indivisible, whereas all physical bodies are divisible.