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The Ghost in the Machine

June 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Opinion

By Marty Hardin (@mjhardin)
In Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 book The Concept of Mind, he introduced the phrase which titles this blog entry. He is arguing against Descartes’ concept of mind/body parallelism and the ambiguous point in which the two function in conjunction with one another.  Think daydreaming while running on the treadmill as opposed to deciding [...]

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