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This 6 page paper defines dualism according to Descartes, what it is and how it works and then considers the interaction between mind and body problem. The development of the philosophy are considered, with the solutions provided by parallelism discussed other modern approaches are also discussed. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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substance. However, many believe that the mind and the body are discrete, two disparate entities reflecting the very different nature of the mental and the physical. This is the philosophy
of dualism. At the very least there the physical and the mental may not be seen as identical. To be a dualist there only has to be acceptance of this
difference, for example, the acceptance that the mental aspect, or the conciseness that undergoes subjective experiences is not a part of the physical world.
One of the proponents of dualism is Descates. When looking at reality Descartes argues that there are two types of reality. These are different substances, the first is
the element of thought, which originates with the mind, the second is extension or matter. The argued that in the universe we know that there is thought and matter. The
paradigm that belies dualism is a single idea; why should reality need to be only one of these aspects. In duality there is the argument that the ideas of the
mind, and that the physical world of the matter are both equally real. Therefore, both the mind and the body are real. This is found in Descartes work Meditations and
is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactionist dualism. This type of dualism allows for the interaction of
the different substances of the mental and physical aspects. In this the substance of the mind can cause an action in the matter substance, and matter substance can cause an
action in mind substance such as specific sensations. Accompanying this is the idea that physical or matter aspects is the extension being located within spatial dimensions whereas the mind is
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