CHAPTER 1: The Natural and Artificial Body in Cartesian Philosophy.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition, along with cartesian philosophy. It mentions the close union of the soul with the body, culture and language do affect our mind by causing changes in our body, mainly in the brain, which in turn affect the mind, and René Descartes thought that the possession of language is a criterion for being able to think,7 neither he nor his followers actually considered that thinking depends on language.