It is as though Descartes has indeed made some notable contributions towards the philosophy of the mind throughout his "time". Descartes came off as being an avid dualist- This is the view that the mind and body are understood to be separate and distinct from each other, but in some way "causally" connected. I found Descartes was no exception, and he believed that the mind and body are two completely different substances. I think (hopefully i got this right, i tend to get their views wrong) he defines the body as an extended, non-thinking substance and the mind as a non-extended, thinking substance... It is not just these definitions that allow Descartes to adopt a dualistic point of view- Descartes came to the conclusion of his discourse of method that any data received from the senses could be doubted and therefore unreliable. Yea, my thoughts... aha okayy!
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