Adverse Psychological Effects to Deep Brain Stimulation: Overturning the Question

摘要

Mecacci and Haselager (2014) argue that human beings tend to think of themselves as "disembodied minds." We are intuitive Cartesians, the authors contend, either because we are culturally led to embracing body-mind dualism, or because our cognitive system is so hard-wired (the Cartesian mind-body dualism is discussed in Pardo and Patterson [2013]).