Cartesian Dualism: The Mind And The Mind Of Our Mind
People have bodies and minds. With our bodies, we eat, talk, breathe, move and touch the world. With our minds, we think, understand, memorize, desire and create ideas. Modern science can well explain what goes on in our bodies as a result of biomechanical and electrochemical interactions. But what about our minds? It seems that thoughts are not substances; they have no shapes or weights and cannot be touched. It is always controversial that whether our minds are immaterial souls or our minds are brains.
According to Descartes Dualism and Cartesian Dualism, it comes the following theses:
1. A human being has two parts: an abstract mind and a physical body.
2. Mind and body are able to exist independently.
3. The mental processes exist due …show more content…
If the mind exists independently, it shouldn't be affected by physical happenings. The dualists could argue that if we're knocked unconscious, the mind does continue working. There are growing scientific evidences to indicate that our brains keep working when we are in a coma. But those evidences are gotten through the exams of the real brains, but not the abstract minds. Then the dualists may successfully prove that the mind is closely connected with the brain. However, this means they basically admit that the mind is affected by the physical body and it is neural dependent, and this contradicts the Dualism …show more content…
What’s the source of energy for the interaction? The law of the conservation of energy says that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it is a closed system. [2] The dualism theory violates the scientific theorem. The energy supposed to be changed when we come up an idea or an imagination. That is, the mind makes impact on the physical world and it must introduce new energy from its immaterial world, or taking energy away from the physical world to use for itself. Since energy is transferred, it can't be simply added or removed. So the mind has no energy to work from.
According to Descartes Dualism and Cartesian Dualism, it comes the following theses:
1. A human being has two parts: an abstract mind and a physical body.
2. Mind and body are able to exist independently.
3. The mental processes exist due …show more content…
If the mind exists independently, it shouldn't be affected by physical happenings. The dualists could argue that if we're knocked unconscious, the mind does continue working. There are growing scientific evidences to indicate that our brains keep working when we are in a coma. But those evidences are gotten through the exams of the real brains, but not the abstract minds. Then the dualists may successfully prove that the mind is closely connected with the brain. However, this means they basically admit that the mind is affected by the physical body and it is neural dependent, and this contradicts the Dualism …show more content…
What’s the source of energy for the interaction? The law of the conservation of energy says that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it is a closed system. [2] The dualism theory violates the scientific theorem. The energy supposed to be changed when we come up an idea or an imagination. That is, the mind makes impact on the physical world and it must introduce new energy from its immaterial world, or taking energy away from the physical world to use for itself. Since energy is transferred, it can't be simply added or removed. So the mind has no energy to work from.