PHI 1500 Lecture 17: Descartes + Geometrical Matter
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Is there thinking without a brain: the human brain is needed for human mind, mind is something different from body/brain. Descartes: your thinking is thinking, you can develop true knowledge by using knowledge given to you by god. Languages the ability to exchange ideas and communicate thrugh abstractions. Language is what makes us human and possible to think. All words of language requires abstract thinking. Without abstract thinking, you can never use language. Communicate with one another and preserve through history. When children are born, they think and learn language. They learn all knowledge: no direct knowledge of other people"s mind. Cannot exist without other people and their language. The human brain and human society: brain does not think on his own. Origin for our knowledge: our knowledge is the development of previous knowledge that was developed by our society, ability to think vs. environment (biological, social) If you can prove it take it.
