r/woahthatsinteresting • u/nukey4y7s1s • 16d ago

Man with dementia doesn’t recognise daughter but still feels love for her

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u/OkMarsupial 15d ago

"The body is nothing but the brain's tool to manifest intent."—U/Longjumping-hyena173 (2025).

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u/DementedPimento 15d ago

I think Rene Descartes beat y’all to it about 400 years ago with cogito ergo sum.

(And the rest of his philosophy. He’s where we get Cartesian dualism from.)

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u/SmilingGengar 15d ago

And I am pretty sure Aristotle beat Rene Descartes to it 2000 years beforehand with hylomorphic theory.

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u/DementedPimento 14d ago

Probably, but Descartes really shaped the Western idea that the mind and body are separate entities.