Personal reflections & Critique 

 

Rene Descartes views were the first to establish that a mind exists and that one can be aware of it.

He stated “I can conceive the mind without the body and vice versa. If I can view them distinctly, they are distinct”. However, there is a tremendous interaction between the two-e.g. psychosomatic diseases.

He also once stated that, “thinking and reasoning are different from physical states.” However, when thinking of examples, we realize that we do not perceive colors as a matrix of molecules reflecting light. Warmth does not feel like molecules vibrating. As a result, they both go hand and hand