Date: 1641
The "I" is not present in the body as a sailor is in a ship but is joined and intermingled with it
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1641
"You may say that you occupy the citadel in your brain and there receive whatever messages are transmitted by the animal spirits which move through the nerves, and sense-perception thus occurs there, where you dwell, despite the fact that it is said to occur throughout the body."
preview | full record— Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)