Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Power of Creativity
The power of cognition properly so-called it's purely spiritual and is just as distinct from the body as a whole as blood is from bone or hand from an eye. The imagination can move the body this is really interesting idea here the images that the specific fantasies that lead to bodily movements are not necessarily images of bodily movements. He doesn't want animals to have to be conscious in the sense of imagining the movement of a limb and then moving the limb.
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