Descartes’s Problem

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René Descartes insists that there are two distinct things in the world: mind and body. He attempts to explain how these two things interact with each other but in vain. Why is that? According to Buddhism, the reason is that the world is not divided as language segments the world. Phenomena are one and whole thing but not divisible into several parts. But we divide the world into parts using language and try to explain phenomena by combining words. So we fail to understand phenomena by language even though we continue to explain them in more and more details using words. In a sense, things words refer to are illusions that do not exist in advance of language. We deceive ourselves that things exist independently of language. Descartes is no exception. He deceives himself that mind and body exist independently of each other. But these two things cannot be divided but are one and whole thing. So Descartes fails to explain how mind and body interact with each other.

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