The Relationship Between Intelligible Extension and Sensations

Sas: I find it very challenging, very puzzling, how you can imagine thinking about anything abstractly without having some point started with something that you were receiving as sensory information. Is there an active and passive component of this? Sas: What do you actually call the activity of the mind as it is flipping round under your control? And maybe we don't actually have as much control as we feel like we do. Do we don't even have will?" West: It seems like, no, he does want to say that we do have freedom of the will. But it just seems like it does not actually help explain anything other than just making his ideas about god more coherent"