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The paper discusses how Descartes believed in Cartesian Dualism with the belief that the mind and brain interacts with one another. The paper explains that Descartes believed that a person had a soul and this soul interacts with the body. The paper asserts that Descartes had a sound argument on Cartesian Dualism with interaction between the mind and body, which is in many ways continued with the modern Christian beliefs.

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"Why do people react to different circumstances, such as why people laugh when someone falls on a banana peel or why someone will kiss their spouse but he or she refuses to share a toothbrush (Stewart 2004, 52)? Descartes believed in Cartesian Dualism with the belief that the mind and brain interacts with one another. Descartes believed that a person had a soul and this soul interacts with the body. Descartes had a sound argument on Cartesian Dualism with interaction between the mind and body, which is in many ways continue with the modern Christian beliefs. Descartes belief on dualism focused on the mind and the body believing..."

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