2007-10-06 21:08:23 · 9 answers · asked by lmott2805@yahoo.com 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Descarte - in his work 'the meditations', used deductive thinking to examine reality. He pealed back the layers of what we can truly know for curtain. He came up with a statement - 'I think therefore I am' as being the only statement we can know for truth. but because he was in a Christian country, he had to include god. so he invented a structure to place on it so that god had something to do. that is the 'ghost in the machine'.
Dragon dog - you are talking about the subconscious. He never comprehended it. That was down to Freud. How ever you are about the seat of the subconscious - it is in the reptilian area of the brain but it is not bad it is just ur defences
2007-10-06 21:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ghost in the machine was British philosopher Gilbert Riles' derogatory description for Rene Descartes' mind - body dualism.
2007-10-08 05:15:28 · answer #2 · answered by Max 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i only know the computer term. lines of code adding up to an unintended consequence.
btw you could word your sentence better like- what are philosophers referring to when they discuss Descarte's Ghost in the Machine?
2007-10-07 04:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a dragon, so i know these things; you have a reptile brain, under that cerebellum. It is the source of your desires. In the Biblical sense, it is refered to as flesh, and is called carnal.
Other people think we are all barbarians, wearing a thin jacket of civilization.
2007-10-07 04:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means that the ghost is instantiated by the machine and also destructed.
2007-10-07 04:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is probably in your textbook like the last one you asked.
2007-10-07 04:11:35 · answer #6 · answered by DaveNCUSA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The duality of mind and body.
2007-10-07 04:13:11 · answer #7 · answered by soppy.bollocks 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dreams of AI.
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2007-10-07 04:15:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine
2007-10-07 04:11:38 · answer #9 · answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋