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La conception mécanique du cerveau reflétait et réfutait en même temps la célèbre théorie du dualisme qu’avait exposée Descartes dans ses Méditations en 1641.
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Parker Settecase, Can We Think That Machines Are Conscious? _A Survey of Philosophical Problems Facing the Attribution of Consciousness to Machines_ - PhilArchive
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This implies that one should be able to understand all aspects of complex structures – plants, animals, or the human body – by reducing them to their smallest constituent parts. This philosophical position is known as Cartesian reductionism.