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15290508 No.15290508 [Reply] [Original]

Descartes' pineal gland stuff is totally insane. I can't take anything else he says seriously.

>> No.15290514

>>15290508
no its a perfectly sensible and understandable idea you're just a literal child

>> No.15290516

>>15290508
what does he say?

>> No.15290537

wtf I love Descartes now

>> No.15290552

>>15290508
Did you actually read it?

>> No.15291346

>>15290508
Read his books before posting.

>> No.15291652

>>15290508
Another day, another anti-Descartes thread. What is the end goal?

>> No.15291727
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15291727

>>15290508
>he refuses to understand the veiled secrets of the ancient world

>> No.15291802

Newton was into alchemy, do you discredit the theory of gravity as well?

>> No.15291816

>>15290508
This guy had to be a serial killer. He would torture animals to death so he could see where the soul is stored.

>> No.15291869

Fuck Descartes for none of the reasons that have been posted in this thread.

>> No.15291871

>>15291727
actual retard

>> No.15291872

>>15291727
Fuck off with your /x/ bullshit.

>> No.15291890

>>15291727
based
>>15291871
>>15291872
hylics

>> No.15291896

>>15290508
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment

>> No.15292116

>>15290508
Read it abstractly for its metaphysics and you'll get what he meant. Same way you read Aristotle's physics

>> No.15292145

>>15290514
People and lab-animals have survived and remaining functioning after the surgical removal of their pineal gland, Descartes was wrong. The pineal gland's main function is to produce melatonin and to help regulate the circadian cycle. The soul being formless doesn't actually reside in the body but the correct place to visualize it as residing figuratively is in the heart.

>> No.15292172

>>15290508
Well, where do you believe the soul to be? Certainly it is somewhere within the diencephalon.

>> No.15292288

>>15291816
It's like smashing open a radio to see where the musicians are. But before you can perceive a new dimension, you must smash through something which is unperceived.

Like Abraham, who suddenly went "hang on, better not kill the kid", you only learn where the right things are by knowing where the dark things are.

So I don't begrudge a little torture to open up a new understanding as long as the understanding reaches a ubiquitous point of application to all the people.