This is tangential but Gina asked me an interesting question: my understanding is that Descartes thought that the pineal gland was where the soul was in humans. Dogs also have pineal glands. Why didn’t he think that the soul interacted with the body through the dogs pineal gland? Was it just too small for him to see?
This is tangential but Gina asked me an interesting question: my understanding is that Descartes thought that the pineal gland was where the soul was in humans. Dogs also have pineal glands. Why didn’t he think that the soul interacted with the body through the dogs pineal gland? Was it just too small for him to see?