Minds and Machines

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…the mind is a internal substance and the body is external, as Descartes proposed, how then is it possible for an internal substance to interact with an external substance, as seen in these examples? Whilst problems with the Dualist theory, such as the one mentioned above do exist, it is widely accepted that Rene Descartes played a pivotal role in beginning to answer the question of how the mind and body are related (Grayling 2001 p,1).