SEARlE, CARTESiAN AND pRopERTy DuAliSM: A DEM vu AND Two FAlSE AllEGATioNS

Given some shared philosophical theses, in this article I firstly analyze how comparing Searle and Descartes creates a philosophical deja vu effect. The mind that exists from a first-person viewpoint is the first thesis. How a primitive concept defines the mind is the second. The internalist conditions of satisfaction in intentionality is the third. The machine-body is the fourth. Secondly, I argue that, since both philosophers have incompatible worldviews -the deist metaphysics versus the "basic facts ", and a "basic " biological fact suggests that the mind can't exist separately from the body (brain), Searle embraces neither Cartesian nor property dualism.