An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

The split leaves a puzzle it never solves. In 1643 Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia asked how a mind with no size could move a body at all. The answers she got didn’t satisfy her, and most philosophers and brain scientists today reject the split.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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