Neurology and the Soul
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Beyond the pineal gland assumption: a neuroanatomical appraisal of dualism in Descartes' philosophy.
OBJECTIVE The problem of the substantial union of the soul and the body and therefore the mechanisms of interaction between them represents the core of the Cartesian dualistic philosophy. This philosophy is based upon a neuroanatomical obvious misconception, consisting mainly on a wrong intraventricular position of the pineal gland and its capacity of movement to act as a valve regulating the f...
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