Hi and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. Kevin Donne here. In episode 668 last week, I noted that I wasn't sure how I'd get away with framing philosophical ideas as fitness, but, you know, that I'd give it a damn good try. This week here is a damn good try at just that for you.

I also wanted to note that although I have received some emails from the haters about philosophy and critical thought and being labeled a pedant,

I have received more emails from listeners who appreciate and enjoy that I'm trying to create a place where people leave with abilities like

how to think objectively and how to source evidence for their own fitness journeys.

So if you're one of those people that listens each week and gets absolutely furious that I

don't do podcasts that fit in with exactly what you want, then either send me a bunch of money and I'll record

a podcast each week just for you, or accept that you aren't the main character in the story of

humanity, and there are some things that you will and won't like, that's okay.

On to this week's episode, as the title suggests, things are about to get a little bit philosophical.

I mean, strictly speaking, every week is actually philosophical because I share knowledge.

And epistemology, or what we know and how we know it it is a branch of philosophy. And so is logic.

You probably realize by now I'm a logical thinker. And in fact, Mr. Spock himself has nothing on my

ability to think in purely black and white terms. You also may have noticed that I've mentioned

Star Trek several times over the last 18 months. Big fan.

Cartesian dualism. What is that? Well, y'all have probably heard of the phrase,

I think, therefore I am. Most popularly known in the Latin, Cogito, Ergosome, but actually first recorded as, je panse, don't je suis,

in Rene Descartes' 1637 book,

Discourse on the Method.

Descartes believed that there are two kinds of things,

mind and matter.

So there's a difference between what is mental

and what is physical.

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