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Is the Mind Immaterial or Material?

June 13, 2019July 14, 2021 / Thomas Harper / Leave a comment

Cartesian dualism has been a point of contention in philosophy since at least, well, Descartes. The dispute is whether the mind is a separate, immaterial entity from the physical body. Problems have plagued the dualist view since the time of Descartes, primarily how it is that the immaterial mind and material body interact.

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