Raffaelo Maggiotti, a student of Galileo, first described it in writing in 1648. “Cartesian” is a term that may come from the last name of René Descartes, who was a French scientist, mathematician, ...

But we don’t know one another exist, for sure. In fact, we have no definitive proof that anything is conscious beyond ...

Sixties protesters didn’t share my interests.

Scientists have long known that it is impossible to separate or fuse a conscious mind — at least, that is what they thought.

French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes created the concept and the now popular term: “I think, therefore I am.” A ...

Dennett blames the philosopher René Descartes for permanently polluting our thinking about the human mind. Descartes couldn’t imagine how a machine could be capable of thinking, feeling and ...