Analysis Of Rene Descartes Arguments For The Mind And Body Distinction

The Mind and Body Relationship

Descartes’ Arguments for the Mind and Body Distinction by Dale Jacquette focuses on the idea that the mind and the body are separated from each other. There is some ambiguity between the mind and the body distinctiveness that Rene Descartes argues. I would like, however, to prove that his argument has some vagueness. Therefore, I would say that the mind is connected to the physical body and that they are not splitted from each other, but instead, they communicate to each other.

We tend to think that our bodies and minds as separate systems and believe they function, independently. Yet instinctively we should know that that is incorrect. We all as human beings function independently with both the mind and the body,

Biologist would also argue the same thing, that the mind does not exist because there is no physical structure called the mind. This argument of both behaviorists and biologists focus on believing that only one type of reality exists, those are the ones that we can see, feel, and touch; this approach is more known as monism. Monism is the belief that the mind and brain are the same thing; this would also lead to the same argument of the body and mind distinction. Dualism falls in the same category; dualism is the view that the mind and body both exist as separate entities. This favors Descartes, argument where he, distinguishes his body from his mind in two ways just because they have different properties. This form of dualism or duality that he proposes is that the mind controls the body that his body has divisible properties that his mind does not

The body and mind might have distinct parts of organisms that classify them as being separated, but they need that connection and communication with each other to function properly. The mind and body might have differences in structures but they are more united than they are separated. They need to interact constantly to aware us of any changes that either the mind and body have and that we might be unable to perceive. Because our mind and body are intimately interconnected, we are able feel pain, move, think , and communicate not only intimately but verbally with the entire