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In this article, the writer discusses that comparing the mind-body relation as it was interpreted and debated in the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Benedictus Spinoza requires analyzing whether Spinoza's parallelism is a valid answer to the mind-body problem created by Descartes. The writer explains that in 'A Discourse on Method', 'Meditations on the First Philosophy' and other works, Descartes contended that human beings consist of minds and bodies, that these are totally distinct substances, that God exists, and that He ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses.

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"Comparing the mind-body relation as it was interpreted and debated in the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Benedictus Spinoza requires analyzing whether Spinoza's parallelism is a valid answer to the mind-body problem created by Descartes. Descartes' interpreted mind-body relations in A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy and other works, and contended that human beings consist of minds and bodies, that these are totally distinct ..."

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