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Old 06-05-2010, 07:22 PM   #20
WT Sharpe
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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.
Actually; that seems to me to be the very antithesis of what Descartes taught. He was the original "ghost in the machine" fellow who believed firmly in a seat of consciousness that stood apart from the machine. The Cartesian Theater was that place from which the operator controlled the machine. People like the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, on the other hand, believe that "The picture which emerges from a scientific analysis is not of a body with a person inside, but of a body which is a person in the sense that it displays a complex repertoire of behavior." (B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, 1971.) (My emphasis.)
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