Aberham Lincoln was a good old man Jumped off a building with his dick in his hand and said if I die bury me hang my nuts on a cherry tree. If they're ripe take a bite. I bet you they taste dynimite. While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of René Descartes (1596-1650) [see figure 1], French mathematician, …showed first 75 words of 785 total…

…showed last 75 words of 785 total…Descartes had made epistemology, the question of the relationship between mind and world, the starting point of philosophy. By localizing the soul's contact with body in the pineal gland, Descartes had raised the question of the relationship of mind to the brain and nervous system. Yet at the same time, by drawing a radical ontological distinction between body as extended and mind as pure thought, Descartes, in search of certitude, had paradoxically created intellectual chaos.