Descarte talks in the sixth meditation about how the imagination cannot be a essential property of the mind because the person (meditator) can still exist even if he was could not imagine. Thus the person must rely on something else than the mind for existence. There the person must think that the imagination then must be linked to the body and not the mind. Descarte goes on then to say that in understanding the mind turns in own itself to get the information while, when we imagine the mind turns outward toward the body for the information. He finished this thought with this is not a good argument for the existence of the body.
I do agree with Descarte that it is not a great distinction for seperation of the mind and body but i do disagree with his idea of imagination being seperate from the mind and says it comes from the body. He says that its seperate because he can exist without imagining. How does he come to this since everyone can imagine in some form. I think imagination is linked to the brain because we get the information to imagine from our knowledge and understanding of how things are.
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I also disagree that imagination comes from the body. I think that since imagination seems to be a single idea or several ideas combined, it must be from the mind. The body doesn't have ideas; the body is basically just biological processes, there is no part of a body that does any "thinking". Thinking occurs in the mind and only in the mind.
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