Discussion
Ryle's phrase 'the ghost in the machine' was designed to characterize a mythical view, which he attributed to :
Answer: B
Ryle attributed the view to Descartes.
In The Concept of Mind (1949), Gilbert Ryle called the 'official doctrine', which he traced chiefly to Descartes, the dogma of the ghost in the machine: the idea that a person is a body (the machine) inhabited by a non-physical mind (the ghost). Ryle argued that this rests on a category mistake, treating the mind as a thing of the same logical type as the body.
Aristotle treated the soul as the form of the body, not a ghost within it. Strawson and Wittgenstein were Ryle's contemporaries and also critics of Cartesian dualism.
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