ABSTRACT
This brings us to a third ingredient of the Cartesian view: that mental and material substances are distinguished by unique attributes. Minds are thinking substances, bodies are extended substances. No extended body thinks; no thinking substance is spatially extended. Suppose we retained the first two components of Cartesian dualism, and rejected this third component. On such a view, minds and bodies would be regarded as distinct substances capable of causal interaction, but minds might nevertheless possess properties Descartes would have restricted to material bodies.
