"Though we do find in the “Meditations” itself the distinction between mind and body, drawn very sharply by Descartes, in fact he makes no mention of our mind-body problem. Descartes is untroubled by the fact that, as he has described them, mind and matter are very different: One is spatial and the other not, and therefore one cannot act upon the other. Descartes himself writes in his Reply to one of the Objections:
The whole problem contained in such questions arises simply from a supposition that is false and cannot in any way be proved, namely that, if the soul and the body are two substances whose nature is different, this prevents them from being able to act on each other. …
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@citizenschallengev4 might like the conversation about philosophers at 1 hour 3 minutes. Dawkins asks, why didn’t they propose the theory? Aristotle mentions redheads and then just moves on. The idea is simple, Darwin thought about it for at least 20 years before publishing.
They go on to talk about Darwin’s wife, how she worried he wouldn’t go to heaven with her. This is probably a partial reason, although they don’t explicitly connect that.
