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Hello everyone, in this question we have been asked what are elizabeth of bohemia's main criticism of descartes ' account of the relationship between mind and body and do you think she would be more satisfied with thomas metzinger's view? explain why or why not.
00:26
So basically, elizabeth agrees with descartes that mind must be able to affect our body otherwise we would have denied that.
00:40
For example, sometimes the body actions, the body performs certain actions because of the desires and intentions but it is hard to see how this could work in descartes ' elizabeth is unhappy with descartes ' definition of the soul so she pushes him to consider its other attributes because she is convinced that to explain the interaction between mind and body the soul must have an extended element.
01:14
So typically humans are characterized as having both a mind that is non -physical and a body or brain that is physical and this is known as dualism.
01:29
So dualism is the view that the mind and body both exist as separate entities whereas the descartes ' view was that the dualism argues that there is a two -way interaction between mental and physical substance.
01:45
So we can think elizabeth's challenge as an objection if x directly causes a body y to move then x is either extended or makes contact with y and if x is an immaterial substance it cannot make contact with the body and if x is an immaterial substance then it is not extended.
02:07
So the elizabeth of bohemia basically questioned descartes ' idea of the mind -body dualism exposing the weakness of his view.
02:16
There was a hypothesis on the role of the unconscious self -model in the development of non -conceptually mediated forms of social cognition that was formulated by thomas metzinger...