§Descartes, like Plato, believed in soul (mind) body separation but speculated on how the immaterial mind and the physical body communicated.
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Descartes
like Plato believed the immaterial mind and physical body were separate but
communicated in the brain at the pineal gland. Animal spirits moved from the
brain to act on the muscles and experiences lead the nerves to open up
“pores” in the brain to form memories. Descartes was right about the nerves
connecting the inside and the outside worlds but had no notion of how these
nerves functioned.
