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Mind-Body Problem, Parallelism and Pantheism

The Mind-Body Problem

• Spinoza rejected Cartesian dualism advocated by Descartes.
• As a result, he rejected the sustainability of mind and body.
• He regarded the mind and body or extension and thought as the two of the infinite inseparable aspects of a single, all-inclusive reality.
• Being co-existent attributes of the substance, thought and extension cannot interact.
• According to Spinoza, the two, thought and extension cannot interact but they run parallel to each-other.
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Descartes: Cartesian Dualism, Interactionism

Cartesian Dualism

• According to Descartes, consciousness and extension are independent of each other. He says, in-order to know consciousness, one need not refer to extension. Similarly, in-order to know extension, one need not refer to consciousness.
• So, consciousness or mind and extension or body are independent of one another. So, they are two independent substances. This dualism of mind and body is important according to Descartes because human beings have both, mind and body.
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