René Descartes sharpened the distinction into two substances: res cogitans (a thinking part that exists outside the body) and res extensa (the body).

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Summary: Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task. This ...