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• n  French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)

• Descartes
• Rene Descartes

News & Articles

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• People attribute minds to robots, corpses that are targets of harm
  As Descartes famously noted, there's no way to really know that another person has a mind -- every mind we observe is, in a sense, a mind we create. Now, new research suggests that victimization may be one condition that leads us to perceive minds in others, even in entities we don't normally think of as having minds, such as a corpse or a robot.
  June 17, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Janez Potočnik in PublicTechnology.net
  Commissioner Potocnik said "The Descartes Prize recognises the best in European collaborative research. It shows just how much we can achieve when we work together at European level. I am also honoured to be presenting the first Descartes Prize for...