Descartes' Naturalistic Principle and Dualism

These flashcards cover key concepts from the lecture on Descartes' Naturalistic Principle and Dualism, including essential terms related to causal interaction between mind and body.

According to Descartes, anything we experience as being in us and which we see can also exist in wholly inanimate bodies and can be attributed only to our __.

body

Descartes believes that thoughts come from the __.

soul

It is an error to believe that the soul gives and to the body.

movement; heat

The idea that thought can be explained by the brain, acting as a biological computer, is known as the __.

Computational Theory of Mind

Descartes' Naturalistic Principle states that if some fact can be explained by __ mechanisms alone, then it is an entirely physical fact.

physical

The core idea of Interactionist Dualism is that the body is distinct from the mind, but causally interacts with the __.

mind

In upward causation, non-mental physical events regularly cause __ events.

mental

According to Descartes, the body is a complex machine controlled through the brain via __.

animal spirits

The pineal gland is the part of the body through which __ and soul-mind causally interact.

body

Passions are mental events which are passively caused by events in the __ or physical environment.

body