Abstract
Abstract Descartes is open portrayed as a villain in the history of Western thought on the grounds that his dualism of mind and body—his view that thinking things and extended things are really distinct substances—sent philosophy on the wrong path. The leading objection to Cartesian dualism is that once having distinguished mind and body as really distinct substances, it is impossible to provide a satisfactory account of their connection. This problem of the connection or union of mind and body is open construed to be one of explaining how mind and body causally interact, that is, how thoughts in the mind produce motions in the body and how motions in the body produce sensations, appetites, and emotions in the mind.
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