Who once said "I think, therefore I am"? - correct answer René Descartes
What did Descartes believe? - correct answer Cartesian dualism / interactionism
two distinct substances (mental/physical) but interact causally
"I think, therefore I am"
"intuition of the mind" rather than just senses
can conceive of perfection therefore God must be perfect
When did Descartes live? - correct answer1596-1650 (born in La Haye, France)
Where did Descartes live? - correct answer France -> Netherlands (20 years) -> Sweden (tutor and then
died)
Who proposed the zombie argument for consciousness being nonphysical? - correct answer David John
Chalmers
Substance Dualism - correct answer The notion that mind and body consist of two fundamentally
different kinds of stuff, or substances
Cartesian Dualism - correct answer The view that mind (or soul) and body are completely independent
of one another and interact causally.
Materialism (or physicalism) - correct answer The doctrine that every object and event in the world is
physical Identity Theory - The view that mental states are identical to physical brain states.
Functionalism - correct answer The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs.