RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
March 4, 2022 at 1:39 am
(March 4, 2022 at 1:30 am)Belacqua Wrote:(March 4, 2022 at 1:23 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Blame Descartes (and his immense influence) for making consciousness and soul synonymous. I wouldn't blame Ferrocyanide for embracing that paradigm. It's a decent paradigm to embrace.
Descartes said that mind is a substance -- res cogitans -- and body is a different substance -- res extensa.
At what point does he state that mind and soul are the same?
I didn't say he did. But he's at least partly responsible for the paradigmatic equation of the two. He at the very least influenced the way people parsed the idea of extended vs thinking things.
Are we, in contemporary times, prone to ascribe extension to the soul? Probably not. That's due to Descartes' influence. It's not horrible to be influenced by the way Descartes thought about things, even if you reject substance dualism.