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La Description du corps humain
work by Descartes
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death and the soul
- In death: Descartes, the pineal soul, and brain-stem death
In “La Description du corps humain” (1664) he wrote that “although movements cease in the body when it is dead and the soul departs, one cannot deduce from these facts that the soul produced the movements.” In a formulation of really modern tenor, he then added…
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