Yet we take it for granted that our society produces machines and teaches
people to do exactly that — and do it safely, statistically
speaking, more often than any other
mode of transportation.
Occasionally, Hartshorne even
speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain
modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a
person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only
to regain it when the
person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable
to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13