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Occasionalism Interactionism Psychophysical parallelism Neutral monism Identity theory Double-aspect theory external world Mind Functionalism Mind-body problem Problem of other minds Intentionality Bundle theory philosophy of mind human intelligence memory thought attention

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René Descartes

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Engraved portrait of Benedict de Spinoza by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz, showing Spinoza in formal 17th-century attire with a circular symbol in the upper left corner.

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