L’Errore di Cartesio
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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2010.1.1.324Keywords:
Dualism, Réné Descartes, Antonio Damasio, body, mind, natureAbstract
Keywords: Dualism, Réné Descartes, Antonio Damasio, body, mind, nature
The article aims at discussing and overcoming traditional dualisms which consider the body inferior to mind. According to Antonio Damasio nature appears to have built the apparatus of rationality not just on top of the apparatus of biological regulation, but also from it and with it. Failure to see this is Descartes’ error. Far from there being a separation, sharp or ragged, between mind and body, mind cannot exist or operate at all without body. The idea that the body’s needs set the pace and indirectly drive the brain’s decisions is not new, but Damasio makes a more interesting proposal out of it. In particular, he shows how this intimate body-involvement plays important roles in explaining some of the juicier and more mysterious facts of “phenomenology”. Moreover, this new dialectical relation between nature and mind gives nature a new value and a new role in our interpretation of the world.
Palabras clave: Dualismo, Réné Descartes, Antonio Damasio, cuerpo, mente, naturaleza.
El artículo pretende tratar y superar los dualismos que consideran el cuerpo inferior a la mente. Según Antonio Damasio, la naturaleza parece haber construido el aparato de racionalidad no sólo sobre el aparato de regulación biológica, sino también desde él y con él. El error de Descartes fue no verlo. Lejos de haber separación, aguda o irregular, entre mente y cuerpo, la mente no puede para nada existir o funcionar sin el cuerpo. La idea de que las necesidades corporales marcan el paso y dirigen indirectamente las decisiones del cerebro no es nueva, pero de ella Damasio saca una propuesta más interesante. En particular, muestra cómo esta íntima participación del cuerpo desempeña un papel importante a la hora de explicar algunos de los hechos más jugosos y misteriosos de la “fenomenología”. Además, esta nueva relación dialéctica entre naturaleza y mente da un nuevo valor a la naturaleza y un nuevo papel en nuestra interpretación del mundo.
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