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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Why Descartes is a Jackass This paper addresses and points out Rene' Descartes complete failure in his Meditations to refute the possiblity that all of reality is your dream, and nothing else.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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In Descartes sixth meditation from Meditations on First Philosophy, he states his belief on the mind body issue.
So, Descartes wrote in his "Meditations": "the entire philosophy is like a tree: his roots are the metaphysics, his trunk the physics and from this trunk his outgrowing branches forms all other Sciences.
For instance, in the Fifth Meditation , Descartes claims to provide a proof demonstrating the existence of God from the idea of a supremely perfect being.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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But Descartes' meditations, Penfield's experiments, brain-in-vats fantasies –all these point to alternative explanations of human experience, explanations of equal explanatory potency.
But Descartes has no pretensions, at least in the Meditations, of presenting such a theory, and his claim both that mind and matter are "greatly different" and that they are causally connected in no way leads him into a contradiction.
FURTHER READING Rene Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy and John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism are the books I’d first refer you to for a discussion of the epistemological and metaethical issues I’ve raised.
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