Cartesian Dualism Research Paper

I will be arguing for Cartesian dualism in this paper. I will argue that Cartesian dualism offers a more reasonable explanation of reality than Darwinian monism. I believe that the mind and the body are two separate things. Life did not just happen by chance. Someone or someone’s mind, created this universe. For anything to take place someone has to have made the first move. “Now whatever is in motion is put in motion by another, for nothing can be in motion except it is in potentially to that towards which it is in motion.” (153) I agree with this because everything has to start somewhere from something. We are our minds, our bodies are just a place where our minds and souls takes place as long as the body function. I am not certain about what happens to our soul when we die however I know it is still somewhere in the universe thinking, feeling or affecting. The mind and body connection is like Rene Descartes explains that if you can think, like you are thinking when you are reading this, you exist. Moreover now when I think
However it appears in a different format, structure and purpose. Perhaps our bodies become food for an animal that is going to poop us out which leads us right into the ecosystem. Everything that exists is going to be here forever just in different shapes and outcomes. That’s the same for our souls. When we die our souls aren’t just going to disappear. Because where would it disappear? Things does not simply disappeared, it just changes. The same is for our soul. Our souls are not following us in the process of passing the ecosystems. It makes its way somewhere else. It is a transcendent substance, it doesn’t take any place and we cannot see it. It cannot disappear. The things that are on earth today are always going to be here. When a person dies, their soul can entrance a newborn body, or just stay wherever for a while, but it is not going to