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Original – According to philosopher Daniel Dennett on Descartes' model of the mind: when the dualism is removed, what remains of Descartes' model of the mind amounts to imagining a tiny theater in the brain where a homunculus (small person), now physical, performs the task of observing all the sensory data projected on a screen at a particular instant, making the decisions and sending out commands.
Reason
I mean. Yeah, it pretty much describes what a Cartesian theater is.
Articles in which this image appears
Cartesian theater, Cartesian materialism, Ontology
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other (maybe a Philosophy category?)
Creator
Vectorized by Pbroks13; Original by Reverie.

Promoted File:Cartesian Theater.svg --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]