In the First Meditation, Descartes tells us how many beliefs that he believed they were true, happen to be false as the time passed. For this reason, Descartes thought himself that one day he is going to sit down and think through all his beliefs, separate the false from the truth ones. From the truth beliefs, see if I have anything in doubt about them, and if so, I am just going to throw them out of the window as a whole, until I will find one thing, that simply I have no doubt about, Descartes says.
Thinking of existence, he takes as an example his own body, in the dream argument and asks how many times we dream about real things, and they are so real so I may find myself sitting in a very particular place, wearing the same as in real life that I have had no doubt that the dream was the actual real life of mine. Why would the dream be false and my awakened be true? Have you ever happened to walk
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I may still be an illusion. At his moment he comes with the finding that his mind and his body are distinguished, they are two different substances. I can imagine myself transferred in another life (after death) but I am sure that my physical body will not be there with me. People get buried, their souls go elsewhere, but their bodies remain, in the cemetery. Thus they body and mind must be two different substances, but can a mind exist without a body? Yes, absolutely, God is a mind, he is a soul and there is no body of him. But is there a body without a mind? Yes, universe is filled will bodies without a soul, as are physical objects as is a rock, a chair, a car etc. But, human body is in very tight relation with its soul. They cannot exist without each other, I mean a dead body still exists even without a soul, but it would be dead. So in order to exist a thinking thing, a thinking matter, it needs to be a mind or a body related to a mind as is