Enduring questions humans may never answer: (a) what is information? (b) where does consciousness reside? and (c) does a metaphysical portion of reality exist? Most of you will glaze over rather ...

Substance Dualism. Have you ever wondered how your mind can think about your favorite game while your hands are busy playing it? It’s like two parts of you working together but doing very different ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

An Iraqi refugee named Salwan Momika publicly burned the Quran in front of the central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden, on the last Eid al-Adha. A few days ago, an anti-immigration and anti-Islam ...

Descartes believed that there was a logical path from doubting the existence of the body to affirming mind-body dualism. In the 20th and 21st centuries, a critique of Cartesian reasoning first made by ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

You were wise to select Descartes’ dualism — separating mind from body — as the topic for your leading letter (Letters, FT Weekend, February 26). This 17th-century model does indeed “still drive ...

It was too early in the morning on a Monday to have a disparaging thought about Rene Descartes. It all started — and gathered momentum — following a voice note left for me by my clinical psychologist ...