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ack in the day (the 1600s), René Descartes was a bit of a thinker. He not only managed to combine geometry and algebra to create analytic geometry, he also laid the foundation for mathematical biology, wrote “I think, therefore I am”, and still had time to propose mind-body dualism. This is the idea that the mind and body are entirely distinct and therefore can theoretically exist

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