For 10 points, name this French thinker who wrote Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy and stated "I think, therefore I am."
This thinker outlined ways to correctly think about philosophy and focused on the scientific method in his Rules for the Direction of the Mind. He also wrote about light and the existence of corpuscles, while another of his ideas asserts that since senses come naturally, the outside world must exist. This author of Le Monde theorized that the (*) pineal gland was the connection between the mind and the body, now considered his namesake dualism. For 10 points, name this French thinker who wrote Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy and stated "I think, therefore I am."
This thinker outlined ways to correctly think about philosophy and focused on the scientific method in his Rules for the Direction of the Mind.
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