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Cartesian theater

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Original – According to philosopher Daniel Dennett on Descartes' model of the mind: when the dualism is removed, what remains of Descartes' model of the mind amounts to imagining a tiny theater in the brain where a homunculus (small person), now physical, performs the task of observing all the sensory data projected on a screen at a particular instant, making the decisions and sending out commands.

Reason

I mean. Yeah, it pretty much describes what a Cartesian theater is.

Articles in which this image appears

Cartesian theater, Cartesian materialism, Ontology

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other (maybe a Philosophy category?)

Creator

Vectorized by Pbroks13; Original by Reverie.

• Support as nominator – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 21:04, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 17:16, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support - Mmm, yes, egg. Moonreach (talk) 14:29, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support - I don't think it should lead Cartesian materialism, given that the theater concept is a critique, but this does an excellent job of illustrating a Cartesian theatre. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:33, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:21, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Cartesian Theater.svg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

• Added image to Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Drawings instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)