PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: East Los Angeles College, Mental Substance, Res Extensa
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This proposition is understood from proposition 7 of book ii. The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things. The idea of mind, the idea of an idea, is nothing other than the form of the idea. The idea is nothing more than a mode of thinking to its object. How can we think purely self reflexively. If we can think of the mind, we have the idea of an idea/mind. The mind is the knowledge of one"s own body, and the knowledge that this body is related to an entire physical universe of bodies. No matter how complicated the infinite causal nexus of particular things in the world, the idea of the human mind is nothing other than the idea of the human body. This body is related to the universe of causally interacting things.
