What is the mind and where does it reside? This is a question that many philosophers have spend lifetimes attempting to answer. Throughout many of those lives, There have been dozens of philosophers who have come to the conclusion that we can never truly know what the mind is, and that people would never be able to think outside of the mind. Those philosophers are well known as skeptics. Two skeptics who have drawn a similar, yet different conclusion about the mind are philosophers Locke and Leibniz. The philosopher Leibniz was a skeptic which many people might call a behaviorist. “Imagine God creating the universe. How much does he have to do? One attractive doctrine would be this: he has to create the physical stuff and the laws of physics, and everything else follows.” This describes the ideals of Leibniz. Leibniz believed that in order for god to create a universe only needed to make the world and everything else would fall into place. Leibniz’s argument; however, had a problem, it did not answer the question of why things are they way they are, this is where skepticism lies in his argument. …show more content…
“Locke, on the other hand, thinks that god has two different things to do. First, fix all the physics and laws of physics. But second, decide how to ‘annex’ mental events to physical events, fixing up psycho-physical relations.” Like Leibniz, Locke believed that god would have had to first create the physical world, but he added another step to the creation of the universe. Locke believed that god would then have to create the connection between the mental and physical. The problem with this argument is that Locke uses a word to define a word. His theory told that it took a mind to make a mind, defining a mind, with mind. This is where his skepticism