Sublime

So he concluded that minds like his (and yours) were not material entities, like lungs or brains, but made of some second kind of stuff that didn’t have to obey the laws of physics—articulating the view known as dualism, and, often, Cartesian dualism. This idea that mind isn’t matter and matter can’t be mind was not invented by Descartes.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force…We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.