The union of the mind and the body

1. If the mind is not spatial, how can it be continuous with the body, and thus how can it cause it to do anything? (8, 9)
4. Descartes hasn't explained anything with this appeal to ideal of union. (7)
5. Standing on the nail I feel the pain in my foot. I do not have a mental sign that my foot is injured. My mind is right there in my foot. (Modern Philosophy: this is an illusion) (4, 4, 5)
6. Mind-body union will help us understand how the mind interacts with the body (9, 8)

2. There is more than one Descartes: a ‘dualist’, and a ‘unionist’ (2, 9, 1, 7)
3. You still have to explain how that 'joining and intermingling’ or ‘confusion’ can apply to you if you are, incorporeal, un-extended and indivisible. If you are no larger than a point, how are you jointed to the entire body, which is so large? (8)

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