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René Descartes

René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician often regarded as a founder of modern philosophy.

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René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French philosopher and mathematician. He is known for the statement "I think, therefore I am" and published Meditations on First Philosophy in 1641. In mathematics he laid the foundations of analytic geometry, which uses coordinates to treat geometric problems algebraically.

He is also known for mind-body dualism, the view that mind and body are distinct substances, an idea often cited in philosophical debates about consciousness and machine intelligence.

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