The notion promoted by René Descartes that the mind is subject only to spiritual interactions while the body is subject only to material interactions.

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- Leonardo da Vinci: studied the workings of the human body and laid the foundations of anatomical drawing.

- René Descartes: wrote an influential book (De Homine [On Man]) in which he tried to explain how the behavior of animals, and to some extent the behavior of humans, could be like the workings of a machine.

Renaissance Scientists Began to Understand Brain Anatomy

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

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