Descartes – Uncommon Descent

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At Mind Matters News: How did Descartes come to make such a mess of dualism?

After Descartes started the idea that only minds have experiences, materialist philosophers dispensed with mind, then puzzled over how matter has experiences.

relatd Seversky at 20, Using the Secret Vegas Better's Book, I've made a ton of money off the Predictable Seversky Posts... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes PM1 @ 201, 205 ~Pattee vs Deacon~ Pattee’s paper “Symbol Grounding Precedes Interpretation” states the obvious, at least according to... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Seversky You know, if BA77 got residuals for every time he repeated his regular posts he'd be worth a small fortune... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin BA77 Back on the Shroud of Turin again, aye? You need to get new material..... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 Einstein himself may not have personally believed in life after death, (nor in a personal God), but Special Relativity itself... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Seversky Relatd/16 You should start your posts with “If I was God” and take it from there. Just taking Christianity at... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry Denyse, If you are reading this and not aware, there is a new video series coming in two weeks on... – Physicists: Our universe might not be...
relatd Seversky at 6, You should start your posts with "If I was God" and take it from there. So, if... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Viola Lee I also agree with Spinoza if this quote by Einstein is accurate about Spinoza: "“I believe in Spinoza's God, who... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus PM1, no one here has argued that blind physical forces account for FSCO/I rich systems, notice, design inference. If Chalmers... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Can you identify a single aspect of Ted, which is involved in Ted’s moral decision-making, that is not... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
PyrrhoManiac1 @203 Can you provide a quote of Pattee arguing that symbol-grounding precedes interpretation? I was relying on the abstract to... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 @5 I also believe in God, but my conception of what that means is different still. I believe in something... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Self referentiality gets you every time you appeal to grand delusion and project it to the other. – John Lennox on debating Richard Dawkins
kairosfocus As lame as it gets in answer to evident fine tuning. We are winning on the merits. – Physicists: Our universe might not be...
kairosfocus Folks, here is a case in point of synergy, leading to an emergent effect due to due and proportionate interaction:... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 DD also falsely holds that our minds are "fundamentally connected to and united with our physical bodies" Well first off,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 DD: "Again, the god of Spinoza (and me) is not more-or-less impersonal; it is simply not personal in any sense... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
dogdoc Vivid, Do we? If the God I believe in corresponds with what “is” then your God does not exist thus... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
vividbleau “But hey, we all believe in God, so that’s a good thing!” Do we? If the God I believe in... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...