Podcast description: Materialism is dead. There are simply too many questions left unanswered after years of studying the brain. Now, people are scrambling for a new way to understand the mind-body relationship. Cartesian dualism has become a whipping boy in philosophy, but it has advantages over the alternatives. Dr. Joshua Farris discusses Cartesianism and philosophy with Dr. Michael Egnor.

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    More like coordinate systems but yeah, it's from the same dude named Descartes.

    He was both a philosopher and a mathematician.