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Mediations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Page history last edited by Alex Backer, Ph.D. 4 years, 6 months ago

In his book Descartes' Error, Prof. Antonio Damasio posited that Descartes' error was the separation of body and mind. But Descartes made a much more profound error in his Meditations on First Philosophy. By positing that "nothing can cause something else without existing and possessing the same property, or source, to a greater degree", and using that to claim that our existence proves the existence of God. Yet his hypothesis was wrong: nuclear explosions can create heat from matter rather than heat, evolution can create complexity from simpler substances and beings, simple colors can be combined to create beauty out of plainness, and our existence certainly does not prove the existence of God. 

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