When1: 1745
When2: 1765
Who: Charles Bonnet [Bonnet, Charles]
What: philosopher
Where: Paris, France
works\ Treatise on Insectology [1745]; Contemplation of Nature [1765]
Detail: He lived 1720 to 1793 and described people who saw aliens {Charles Bonnet syndrome, Bonnet}. Consciousness unity and sensation-and-motion disconnection both imply that immaterial mind is separate from body. Nervous system initiates mind's activities but does not cause them.
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