Is Descartes still wrong three decades later?
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https://doi.org/10.24310/contrastes.29.3.2024.17577Keywords:
mind, brain, neural networks, Descartes, DamasioAbstract
Thirty years ago a book appeared that was destined to have a great impact: Descartes' Error. Its author was Antonio Damasio (1994) and, after its appearance in English, there were many reviews, mostly positive, as well as translations that included the Spanish language. Four years later, in 1999, the journal Enrahonar published a special issue dedicated to the French philosopher, celebrating, somewhat belatedly, the four Centuries since his birth in 1596. In Enrahonar's tribute an article appeared that reviewed Descartes' reading by Damasio. Let's return now, taking advantage of some of what has been written since then, about the keys that neuroscience provides us today about the relationship between mind and brain that Descartes began to consider.
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