... different components (Maunter, 2000, P152). The mind or the 'mental' is seen as an external entity, which is immaterial and cannot be located in the body. This entity of the mental is where thinking processes occur - not in the brain, as the brain denotes the physical world. To the dualist it is difficult to see how a material object such as the brain is able to perceive and appreciate things such as art. Cartesian dualism is the foremost school of thought in regards to the mind/body problem (Warburton, 1999, P131). Descartes conceived the mind as an entity in its own right, a 'mental substance', the essential nature of which is 'thinking', or consciousness. Descartes envisaged two domains of entities, one consisting of immaterial minds and the other of material bodies. Descartes' mind-body doctrine combines substance dualism, i.e. the dualism of two distinct kinds of substances, with attribute or property ...

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