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The soul is not joined immediately only to the animal spi... — Carmelics

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The soul is not joined immediately only to the animal spirits in the brain's concavities.

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1.Animal spirits continuously enter and leave the brain's concavities like water in a river.
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2.It would be absurd to suppose the soul is joined only to something so transient and unstable as flowing animal spirits.
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1.Heraclitus and the Stoics held that identity through flux is coherent: fire maintains its nature precisely through continuous material exchange.
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2.If soul-body union requires material continuity, the soul's own immateriality already violates this standard, making the spirits' flux irrelevant as an objection.
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1.Aristotle's hylomorphism locates the soul as the form of the body, unified with all organic processes simultaneously, not privileging one anatomical site.
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2.A claim that the soul is NOT joined 'only' to animal spirits implicitly concedes a partial join, undermining the pineal gland's proposed role as sole mediator.
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Descartes’ short remarks about a small gland in the middle of the brain which is of paramount importance apparently generated a lot of interest. In 1640, Descartes wrote several letters to answer a number of questions that various persons had raised. In these letters, he not only identified the small gland as the conarion or pineal gland (29 January 1640, AT III:19, CSMK 143), but also added some interesting points to the Treatise of man. First, he explained why he regarded it as the principal s

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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