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"Descartes' dualist theory of Mind and Body has difficulty explaining how the two interact. What is the problem? Explain and evaluate Descartes' attempts to overcome it."

Introduction
René Descartes (1596-1650) is known as the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Cartesian Dualism" although he was also an outstanding mathematician and scientist for his time.
Influenced by notable Western philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, who maintained that man's intelligence could not be identified or be explained in terms of their physical body, he developed the idea that the mind is a nonphysical substance. Descartes was the first philosopher to clearly distinguish the mind from the brain. He believed that the brain was the seat of intelligence, whereas the mind was identified with consciousness and self-awareness. Descartes' most famous philosophical work is the Meditations on First Philosophy (1641).
He formulated the mind/body problem in the form in which it still......

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