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The document presents a timeline of the development of thinking about the body, soul and mind from ancient times to the present day. The following key ideas stand out: 1) Aristotle considered the body as the "dynamis" and the soul as its "first act"; 2) Descartes established the mind-body distinction by pointing out that he doubted his body but not his mind; 3) Hume rejected the idea of an immaterial soul and proposed that the mind is a co
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