#ElisabethOfBohemia

“She published nothing, held no post, and wrote only letters — and with one polite question she set the agenda for the next century of philosophy of mind. Every great system that followed is, in part, an attempt to answer Elisabeth.”

“If mind and body are utterly different kinds of thing, as Descartes claimed, then there is no intelligible way for one to move the other — and a philosophy that cannot explain how you raise your own arm has a hole in its foundation.”