A System of Metaphysics
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It is a machine with an intelli- gent governor. We have seen 4 that the Cartesian soul, seated at a definite point in the brain, and engaged in pushing and being pushed, comes perilously near to being a mere lump of matter, a part of 1 " Les Passions de 1'Ame, " Art. 13. 2 IMcL, Art. 16. 3 Ibid. , Art. 4'2. * See the preceding chapter. The Automaton Theory: Its Genesis 289 the machine that it is supposed to control. Yet Descartes had maintained that the essence of matter is extension and the es...sence of the soul is thought. He had by his definitions so separated the two that it became inconceivable that they should come together in such a way as to form one whole. The difficulty so impressed his successors that they were impelled to deny the direct interaction of soul and body. How can that which is not body either push or be pushed ? It remained to account for the apparent interaction of soul and body in some other way, and several ways were sug- gested. The Occasionalist maintained that, no direct interaction being possible, on occasion of this or that volition God calls forth the appropriate motion in matter; and in adopting this doctrine he took refuge in what Spinoza calls " the asylum of ignorance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is a machine with an intelli- gent governor. We have seen 4 that the Cartesian soul, seated at a definite point in the brain, and engaged in pushing and being pushed, comes perilously near to being a mere lump of matter, a part of 1 " Les Passions de 1'Ame, " Art. 13. 2 IMcL, Art. 16. 3 Ibid. , Art. 4'2. * See the preceding chapter. The Automaton Theory: Its Genesis 289 the machine that it is supposed to control. Yet Descartes had maintained that the essence of matter is extension and the es...sence of the soul is thought. He had by his definitions so separated the two that it became inconceivable that they should come together in such a way as to form one whole. The difficulty so impressed his successors that they were impelled to deny the direct interaction of soul and body. How can that which is not body either push or be pushed ? It remained to account for the apparent interaction of soul and body in some other way, and several ways were sug- gested. The Occasionalist maintained that, no direct interaction being possible, on occasion of this or that volition God calls forth the appropriate motion in matter; and in adopting this doctrine he took refuge in what Spinoza calls " the asylum of ignorance.
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