Yet both mind and body are equally non-conscious (jaDaa) in Samkhya and, while they are different developments of prakriti, they are both made up of gunas.

In Western philosophy, the earliest discussions of dualist ideas are in the writings of Plato, who suggested that humans' intelligence (a faculty of the mind or soul) could not be identified with, or explained in terms of, their physical body. However, the best-known version of dualism is due to René Descartes