... for solutions within the areas of life after death or relationships between mind and body. Many dualists believe that the mind holds more knowledge than the body can comprehend. There is often perceived to be some innate or 'a priori' knowledge involved. There are varying types of dualism; the disembodied soul implies an interactionist theory such as Cartesian dualism. This indicates that the body and soul are of a composite nature, although the soul may live on in another form. The Cartesian dualist would hold that whilst bodily activities may be witnessed by outsiders; the mind is the place of all feelings and sensations which are private to the individual. It is believed that the mind and body interact as they may both have causal effects on each other, through physical or mental states. However it is an imperative to the Cartesian dualist that the mind and body are clearly ...

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