Quotes About Cartesian

It is a part of the Cartesian mode to think of consciousness as being something peculiar to the head, that the head is the organ originating consciousness. It isn't. The head is an organ that inflects consciousness in a certain direction, or to a certain set of purposes. But there is a consciousness here in the body. The whole living world is informed by consciousness.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. Here we cannot fail to notice how this Buddhist view is diametrically opposed to the Cartesian cogito ergo sum: 'I think, therefore I am.

There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, I think, therefore I am: Americans do not think, yet they are.

It is difficult, almost impossible, in fact, for the scientific community to recognize the fact that Cartesian bifurcation is a philosophic postulate, for which there is absolutely no scientific basis [...] It is not that they can conceive or imagine a scientific proof of that hypothesis; it is rather that they are unable to conceive that it might not be true.

What saves the day for physics ... is the fact that the experimentalist does not accept the Cartesian philosophy, which is to say that he treats his apparatus not as a mathematical structure, but as a perceivable object. Even as there are said to be 'no atheists in the trenches', so indeed there are no bifurcationists in the laboratory. All knowledge of the external world begins in the perceptible realm: deny the perceptible object, and nothing external remains.

Cartesian dualism gave medicine permission to see and to treat the body as manipulable matter, as res extensa,

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.

el miedo es a la vez lo que está "en el origen de todo", una parodia del cogito cartesiano: "Tengo miedo, luego vivo"– y

In atomic physics, the sharp Cartesian split between mind and matter, between the I and the world, is no longer valid. We can never speak about nature without at the same time speaking about ourselves.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix . The postwar vogue for Parisian thinkers barely concealed their collective retreat into Hexagonal introversion and into the ultimate fortress of French intellectuality, Cartesian theory and puns.

John Locke, rejecting a central thesis of Cartesian philosophy, argued that the mind was a tabula rasa, an empty vessel devoid of any innate ideas. As a result, it is passive in the knowing process. It simply receives "impressions" from the external world through the senses and then formulates ideas from the impressions it has gathered.

Ernst Mayr characterized the Cartesian view of animals as dumb automatons.2

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

Fig. 148. Cartesian Equation of the Cone Mid-point of base as Origin. The distance (d) between two points (P1 and P2) in 3-dimensional space (Fig. 147) is given by: d2 = (x2 ? x1)2 + (y2 ? y1)2 + (z2 ? z1)2 It is sometimes easier to obtain the Cartesian equation of a figure by first defining it in cylindrical co-ordinates and substituting: y = r sin A; x = r cos A Figs. 148 and 149 disclose the genesis of Cartesian equations which describe the cone and the sphere:

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

Mais l'idée que le monde entier, y compris les êtres vivants, relève de la mathématique pure, n'est qu'une vue a priori de l'esprit, qui remonte aux cartésiens.

I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.

This is the textbook position on quantum mechanics and the nature of reality: that the Cartesian separation of mind and matter into two intrinsically different substances is false.

Beneath Cartesian nature, which theoretical activity sooner or later constructs, there emerges an anterior stratum, which is never suppressed, and which demands justification once the development of knowledge reveals the gaps in Cartesian science