The universe is a machine. In one of her letters to Descartes, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia identified one of the major difficulties faced by Cartesian dualism, namely that it could not explain a. Another problem for Cartesian dualism was the problem of other minds. Descartes proposed that another creature has a mind if it a. uses language c. can learn b. reacts to sensory stimuli d. makes tools 45. Descartes abandoned work on L Homme because a. he could not give a physical account of consciousness b. of Princess Elisabeth s devastating criticisms c. without a microscope he could not see individual neurons d. of the condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition 46.
People can observe their thought processes through reflection.
While people can observe thinking, their observations are unreliable. Since thinking is behavior, we don t need to introspect it. John Locke b. Thomas Hobbes c. Blaise Pascal d. Baruch Spinoza 49.