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The mind and the body

We think with our minds and move with our body. That was pretty easy to grasp right? One cannot obviously switch these two roles, i.e. , move with their mind and think with their bodies. But then, what is the mind we speak of? Wikipedia defines mind as: The mind is the set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory, which is housed in the brain (sometimes including the central nervous system). It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity's thoughts and consciousness. It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation, and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions. Hence one can obviously conclude that mind isn't any physical entity with mass right? Or is it? René Descartes was a brilliant French mathematician and philosopher. He gave us the Cartesian system of coordinates we use today. Descartes made an observation, or an epiphany to