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  1. 1. The order of ideas and things is the same
  2. 2. The human mind is the idea of the human body
  3. 3. Mind does not move body; body does not move mind
  4. 4. Activity from adequate ideas; passivity from inadequate ideas

Demonstration

  1. 5. Nothing is destroyed except by an external cause
  2. 6. Contraries cannot coexist when one can destroy the other
  3. 7. Everything endeavours to persist in its being
  4. 8. Conatus is the actual essence of the thing
  5. 9. Conatus involves indefinite duration
  6. 10. The mind is conscious of its own striving

Consequence

  1. 11. Appetite and desire
  2. 12. The mind affirms the body's existence
  3. 13. Changes in bodily power alter mental power
  4. 14. Joy, sadness, desire: the three primary affects
  5. 15. Complex emotions as compositions of the primitives

Recap

  1. 16. Passive affects from external determination; active affects from adequate causation
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