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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Descartes seems to have been an idiot as far as I can make out - he thought cats were machines.
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My problem with Descartes is that his desire to reduce everything to the level of machine and precision is a big problem for me. It means that things can only be valued by their contribution to making life more efficient.
I blame a lot of the problems we have today on that line of thinking, and this from a man who was so afraid of the church's power at the time that he tied himself in knots trying to fit God into his theories.