12- The Machine of the Body
Yes, dear, the body that the Almighty God created, and we call it by this name is, in fact, a machine at the disposal of the spirit.
There are all types of neurons and other nuts and bolts in the human brain. Each is a tool for a specific function that the spirit carries out.
Spirit is one unit that remains after the body, a mixture of different materials, dies, just like a composer who remains after his harp breaks down.
Plato
Materialists believe that all affairs originate from senses, and senses do not prove the existence of spirit.
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais, the French physiologist, argues that he did not find the spirit at the tip of his scalpel.
The scholars of spiritualism had multiple reasons to deny this issue.
If the term "material" lacks its spiritual context, then it will become meaningless.
Malebranche (French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher who was Descartes's student) was against the spirit's effectiveness on the body. He believed that only God, on occasions, can reflect the effects of body affairs on the spirit or the effects of the spirit on the actions of the body. Human-induced causes are nothing but accidental causes. The real cause is God.
"The elements of life are in correlation with raw materials. However, what is related to life itself has no connection with neither physics nor chemistry. The notion of managing evolution is essential."
Claude Bernard
Protoplasm is the physical basis of life. They have performed chemical decomposition on it, and its synthesis (scientific synthesizing) will happen later. All incidents carried out by an organ are mechanical, physical, or chemical (Materialistic World, Le Dantec). Philosophers such as Kant and Claude Bernard disagreed with this theory. They believed that science has never been and will never synthesize (scientific synthesizing) the Protoplasm.
Spirit is the universal principle in biological and psychological incidents (Stahl). One can recognize the spirit better and with certitude than they can with the body. However, I can be suspicious of my body, and I can be distrustful of my senses' verity, but I cannot doubt the existence of my suspicion. I doubt because I think, and I think because I exist.
Descartes