descartes and searle
As a psychology major, one of topics that I find most interesting in philosophy is the mind/body problem. This can be defined as the relationship between the immaterial mind and the material body. Philosophers from all times have contemplated this problem; two of which are Rene Descartes and John Searle. It is my hope in this essay to present an overview of Descartes and Searle’s theories as related to animal’s minds and human minds while putting emphasis on their differences and similarities. René Descartes is whom we owe the first account of the mind/body relationship to. Descartes can be seen as a duelist, someone who believes that the mind and the body are not only separate, but competent of independent existence. He is of the belief that animals can be considered extremely complex machines. However, he does not clearly state whether he is assured that animals do not have souls. Descartes states that even if machines having organ
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