If descartes is correct in his assertion that mind and body are distinct , the causal connection between the two is left mysterious .
如果笛卡尔的说法是对的,即心灵和身体是两种不同的东西,那么两者之间的因果联系便无法解释。
Claiming that his method was empirical and inductive , rather than rationalist and deductive , newton was also fond of criticising descartes .
牛顿同样喜欢批评笛卡尔的哲学,在他看来,笛卡尔的方法依靠经验和归纳,而非理性和推演。
Be further advised that this view has a long history that goes all the way back to descartes , although its modern support comes mostly from behaviorist psychology .
In the next section we will see that , many years before the wachowskis dreamed upthe matrix , descartes had imagined an equally terrifying possibility .