Hot Docs 2013: ‘The Ghosts in Our Machine’ uses the power of the camera to put the horse before Descartes
Modern Western philosophical patriarch René Descartes is probably best known for his pithy dictum: cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”) – a formulation which led him step by step to a “dualistic” vision of existence, with a radical divide between the physical body and the purely spiritual “mind”.