diff --git a/content/blog/2023-05-02_physicalism/index.md b/content/blog/2023-05-02_physicalism/index.md index 8d85007..29a29c2 100644 --- a/content/blog/2023-05-02_physicalism/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2023-05-02_physicalism/index.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags = ["philosophy"] ### Intro -Way back in 1641, René Descartes dropped *Meditations on First Philosophy*, in which he famously claimed he was certain that he existed. But towards the end of his little book, he also made some pretty influential claims about the nature of the mind, saying it was totally seperate from material substance. I think his arguments for this are bullshit, and I want to try to explain why. +Way back in 1641, René Descartes dropped *Meditations on First Philosophy*, in which he famously claimed he was certain that he existed. But towards the end of his little book, he also made some pretty influential claims about the nature of the mind, saying it was totally separate from material substance. I think his arguments for this are bullshit, and I want to try to explain why. ### Part One: Reconstruction of Braitenberg