October 20, 2009
Descarte’s Dualistic Dilemma
For Descartes, dualism was a logical attempt to explain that which could not be explained in purely physical terms, however as time has gone by, the idea that a non-physical, non-spatial mind stuff with no extension could causally interact and affect a purely physical body has lost a lot of its force. It is likely that as time goes on we will see breakthroughs that will force dualists to accept that the mind is actually a purely physical part of the brain.