Is mind separate from body?
A generally well-known version of dualism is attributed to René Descartes (1641), which holds that the mind is a nonphysical substance. Descartes was the first to clearly identify the mind with consciousness and self-awareness and to distinguish this from the brain, which was the seat of intelligence. Hence, he was the first to formulate the mind-body problem in the form in which it exists today Types of mind-body dualism Ontological dualism makes dual commitments about the nature of existence as it relates to mind and matter, and can be divided into three different types: (1) Substance dualism asserts that mind and matter are fundamentally distinct kinds of substances.[1] (2) Property dualism suggests that the ontological distinction lies in the differences between properties of mind and matter (as in emergentism).[1] (3) Predicate dualism claims the irreducibility of mental predicates to physical predicates.[1] more………..
