Eight contrasts are drawn between the characteristics of the Cartesian mind and the assumptions embedded in the alternative conception of an experiential world. The Cartesian mind is isolated and self-sufficient, subject opposed to object, inner, devoted to clear-and-distinct ideas, reliant on true-false logic, atemporal, representational, and substantial. The experiential world is relational, social, dialogic, and contextual, perspectival, doubly inhabited and inhabiting, complex and fallibilistic, more or less aware, temporal and emergent, understanding-oriented, and organizing process. Some practical consequences of these contrasts are briefly mentioned.