After Descartes carefully observes about how mind be affected the sensations from the brain, which get message from the nerves of the body, he now realizes that most of the sensations are conductive to the maintenance of the hea

According to Descartes, the relation between mind and body is unlike the relation between a sailor and his ship. Descartes believes that teaching by nature is same as teaching by God. Then, ¡§ by means of these sensation of pain, hunger thirst and so on, nature also teaches not merely that I am present to my body I the way sailor in present in ship, but that I am most tightly joined and, so to speak commingled with it, so much so that I and the body constitute one single things¡¨(53) Namely, the degree of closeness of the relation between mind and body is much more higher than the one of the relation between a sailor and his ship. When Descartes¡¦ body is injured, he can feel the pain right away. However, when the ship is broken, the sailor may not know the damage until he sees it or see water pouring into t

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