sm, Descartes also adds a Cartesian twist. Cartesian duality is a dogma that explains the division of existence into two distinct entities: a thinking self and a non-thinking body, in which both can have causal effects on the other. With this, Descartes characterized thoughts and thinking as non-spatial, and non-corporeal. Thoughts are not of the body. The body represented a non-thinking entity, free of thoughts. He insisted that one's sense of self existed separate from the body. A body, then, is an epiphenomenon, something outside of anyone's capacity to know it, feel it, be connected with it, etc. Basically, Descartes feels that the body is a substance that is purely physical and, therefore, "the mind is first and best known"(10) with consciousness as its essence. He "then moves from his assumption that consciousness is the very essence of the mind to the conclusion that the mind is conscious at all times that it exists...[and] where there s mental activity, we are always aware of it...[and] our awareness of mental activity cannot be wrong"(13-16).
             On to the more plausible theory of metaphysics: Eliminative Materialism, commonly known as eliminativism. This theory is fairly new, compared to others, and was first brought forth by Paul Feyerabend and Richard Rorty. Currently Paul and Patricia Churchland defend it. At the very beginning, like the time of Rorty, Eliminativists merely stated that we as human entities are only bodies. This seems to be connected with the Materialist point of view: the mind and body are one, where "the mental is a distinct realm from the physical"(67). In reality, they are very much different for the mere fact that the Eliminativ
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