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This paper analyzes the philosophical arguments of Gilbert Ryle, Rene Descartes, and Fred Jackson within the context of Cartesian Dualism. The paper discusses how Ryle provides a physical premise for denying the reality of dualism in his sympathetic and neurological premise for the unity of mind and body for intelligent acts. However, the paper points out that Descartes finds the human mind a far more abstract energy, which can only be defined through the teleological premise of God. The paper discusses how Jackson also agrees with the premise of a dualism of mind and body, but cannot be as easily refuted by Ryle, since he is using experiential (yet subjective) premise to his arguments in favor of the mind's ambiguous relationship with the body.

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