Philosophy and Descartes?

[mustang_jenn2005]

Briefly describe the elaborate signaling route or mechanism by which Descartes thinks the mind and body are able to communicate with one another (see p. 679). Does this route or mechanism make any sense? Is it a satisfactory answer to the problem of mind-body interaction? Notice the passages in the text where he says that information or stimuli from the body get transferred first to the brain, then to the mind, and in return the mind sends instructions back to the brain, and then to the body. Where in this linkage is there a conceptual or philosophical problem? How can a "disturbance" or motion in the brain give a "signal" to or "arouse" a response in the mind? and vice versa? Explain how this passage illustrates the so called "mind-body" problem, and why Descartes' colorful description of the process fails to solve the problem

[Jenny R]

try agAAIN

[Esbjorn]

Look up "paraphrase"

[Redhawke]

Putting it briefly........our minds tell our body what to do....feel....smell....taste...and touch.....and the mind blowing part that Descartes never figured out is.......our minds tell us how to think/imagine. We would never know any of the five senses that we know of were there.......unless our minds told us they existed. There's a reason why some people can walk on hot coals........why a mother can rip a car door off to save her child...why a human can come out of a coma......all in the brain .........mind over matter....and that is the basis for everything and anything. All you have to do is think about it.