... it in its physical sense. This, however, is not true of the mind. How, then, are we to describe it? "Descartes uses the term 'mind' to refer to the conscious, thinking self." (Cottingham 124) From this, therefore, we could argue that the mind is the place where conscious thought takes place. It is almost necessary that Descartes would claim this due to his proposition cogito ergo sum which claims that thought proves the existence of a person. However, Descartes in First Meditations, has denied that he can be certain of his body, and therefore all that he can be sure that is in existence from thought is a place where such thoughts reside - this is what we may consider to be the mind. Scientifically the brain has been the organ associated with thought. Physiologists and psychologists have both found that thoughts correspond to various activities and stimuli within the brain. Could we ...

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