Full Idea
Descartes confined his dualism to problems of reason and language. Sensation and even imagination seemed to him physically unproblematic. Nowadays it is the reverse: thinking seems easy - but feeling?
Gist of Idea
Descartes put thought at the centre of the mind problem, but we put sensation
Source
comment on René Descartes (Meditations [1641], 2) by Georges Rey - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind 2 n16
Book Reference
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.67
A Reaction
Thinking only 'seems easy' if it can be done without consciousness, and that is beginning to look like a dubious assumption. The most interesting and promising area is the borderline between a chess-playing machine and a human chess player.