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    It is not the case that The pineal gland is the principal seat of the rational soul and the place where all thoughts are formed.

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    • 1.The soul, if immaterial and unextended, cannot interact causally with any specific physical location in the body.
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    • 2.Descartes' own substance dualism entails that res cogitans has no spatial properties, making 'seat of the soul' a category error.
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    • 3.Locating thought in the pineal gland illicitly attributes spatial extension to a substance Descartes defined as non-extended.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The argument from uniqueness is invalid: the vermis cerebelli, anterior commissure, and other midline structures are equally unpaired.
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    • 2.Singularity of a brain structure is insufficient to establish it as the locus of unified consciousness without independent criteria for selection.
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    • 1.We see only one thing with two eyes, hear only one voice with two ears, and have never more than one thought at a time.
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    • 2.The impressions entering by the two eyes, two ears, etc. must unite in some single part of the body before being considered by the soul.
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    • 3.The pineal gland is the only part of the brain that is not double (i.e., it is the only unpaired structure).
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