Thoughts about René Descartes the man, who existed and thought
René Descartes (1) (1596-1650) was one of the most interesting persons, who has ever lived in Europe. He created an idea, that existence means that creature could think independently, and independence of thinking is the same thing, what the independence in life would be. So when creature thinks, that means creature exists. This idea is culminating in modern Artificial intelligence. Are we creating the machine, what exists, or what knows that it existed? This is a very interesting question because stones also exist but they don't know their existence. Or how could I know, does the stone know it's existence?
I can think that stone is so different creature, that we cannot even notice, it's alive. So for us, it's the creature, what is dead and that's it. The thing is that Descartes was one of the most interesting persons in the history culminates in his work as the teacher of the Queen of Sweden, Christina (1626-1689), who was protestant. Descartes was Catholic and that thing is really interesting because in that time the 30 Years War was just ended, and Catholics had very bad relationships with protestants.
So how Descartes allowed teaching the had of protestants? The thing is that Descartes died year after he came to Stockholm, is causing many theories about the methods, what this man used in his work. And the thing is that Christina turned to Catholic, and abdicated her crown is remarkable.
So did Descartes use some kind of suggestion to that 22 years old woman? Those things are really interesting to think, and when we are looking at the work, what Descartes made in the field of research of the anatomy or natural sciences, we must realize that there is something that people are not understood, and that thing is that if Descartes wrote something, that man might mean something else.
This thing is visible in the image, which is found on the Finnish Wikipedia page about this man. There is an image (3), that demonstrates the cooperation with hand and eye, and there is another explanation for that image. The thing is that the image might also represent the statue, which keeps the book in the hand. And when the time is coming, the sunlight would be conducted to the series of lenses and mirrors to the eyes of the statue, and that thing causes a fire.
The thing is that the system might use the very big parabolic mirror for conducting the light to a small channel, where is the series of lenses and mirrors. I don't know does this thing work, but if the parabolic mirror, what size is two meters would target to a statue or intaking lens hours in shiny day, that thing might have a very big effect. I don't know did Descartes finalized his ideas, but this kind of thing is very interesting.
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Descartes in Finnish
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