I joke quite a bit that we can blame Descartes for geometry (and math!), but I feel like there's something even larger than the trouble with math that we need to blame him for, and that's the modern concept of mind-body dualism. He wasn't the first to write about it, and in fact the idea…
I couldn't remember the last time I'd walked to the mailbox. It's a tenth of the mile, and I'd been so focused on many other things, too many things really, but I'd decided that the weather was gorgeous that I could afford to take the twenty minutes or so out of my day. I let…