The problem with that, is that it dismisses the way the mind and body mix with each other. Emotions such as anger can lead to physical changes in the body, both long term and short. Also how we subconsciously do things everyday like getting up and walking. The act of putting one foot in front of another and reaching out, moving a finger along a keyboard. How could a body exist without a mind to control it and how could a mind exist without a body to control and fill with emotions? Descartes acknowledges that argument and states that less real cannot cause something that is more real, and by something that is less real he’s talking about finite substances and a finite substance can’t make an infinite substance. Descartes, initial question, that is based on the question if knowledge possible, goes on to say that knowledge is built on doubt. The three stages of skepticism that Descartes goes on to acknowledge is things are not always what they seem, he doubts all legitimacy of anything sensory and lastly that a God exists to deceive us. Descartes goes on to say that we do not need to worry that we should not be certain of anything at all because he states “I am, I exist” because the truth to that doesn’t come from sensory information or anything from our physical world. Descartes
The problem with that, is that it dismisses the way the mind and body mix with each other. Emotions such as anger can lead to physical changes in the body, both long term and short. Also how we subconsciously do things everyday like getting up and walking. The act of putting one foot in front of another and reaching out, moving a finger along a keyboard. How could a body exist without a mind to control it and how could a mind exist without a body to control and fill with emotions? Descartes acknowledges that argument and states that less real cannot cause something that is more real, and by something that is less real he’s talking about finite substances and a finite substance can’t make an infinite substance. Descartes, initial question, that is based on the question if knowledge possible, goes on to say that knowledge is built on doubt. The three stages of skepticism that Descartes goes on to acknowledge is things are not always what they seem, he doubts all legitimacy of anything sensory and lastly that a God exists to deceive us. Descartes goes on to say that we do not need to worry that we should not be certain of anything at all because he states “I am, I exist” because the truth to that doesn’t come from sensory information or anything from our physical world. Descartes