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New Zealand Listener
|June 4 - 10, 2022
A growing volume of research suggests our reasoning is a product not just of our brains but the rest of our bodies, too.
PSYCHOLOGY
Back in the day (the 1600s), René Descartes was a bit of a thinker. He not only managed to combine geometry and algebra to create analytic geometry, he also laid the foundation for mathematical biology, wrote “I think, therefore I am”, and still had time to propose mind-body dualism. This is the idea that the mind and body are entirely distinct and therefore can theoretically exist separately from each other. It's a Big Idea.
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