Human bodies may function similarly to automatons.

He wanted to abandon philosophy and become an artist.

Some truths are unknowable.

"I think, therefore I am".

Rene Descartes.

John Locke.

Socrates.

Plato.

A prosperous childhood, with many books to read and progressive education.

A poor childhood, which influenced many of his existential quandaries.

A middle-class childhood without any formal education, though he read frequently.

A prosperous childhood with many opportunities to read and go to school, though he lacked interest and performed poorly in academia until later adulthood.

"Simple Natures" and analytic geometry.

Analytic geometry and "I think, therefore I am".

"I think, therefore I am", and the mind-body problem.

"Simple Natures" and the scientific method.

Never accept anything as true unless there was positively no occasion or reason to doubt.

Accept only what is said about a topic by individuals who have dedicated at least 20 years of their life to it.

Follow only your personal affectations in deciding on the validity of a topic.

Nothing exists, do what makes you happy.

had a series of vivid dreams that became the basis of his method of obtaining knowledge.

had a near-death experience that encouraged him to quit the life of a soldier and return to academia.

accidentally became mayor through a series of bizarre and incidental events, leading him to abandon the life of a recluse.

won a pie eating contest, later referred to wryly in his personal journal as "... one of [his] life's most esteemed accomplishments".

Elementary and fundamental properties of objects which cannot be analyzed or doubted.

One of the five major categories of personality Descartes devised.

The links between animals and their souls; links between humans and their souls are "Complex Natures".

A category of sciences with true, knowable facts as determined by Descartes.

The amount of space occupied by a chair.

The speed at which you can throw a chair across the room.

The connection between the chair and the platonic ideal of what a chair should be.

The relative warmth or coldness of a chair in comparison to a person touching it.

A secondary quality.

A primary quality.

The secret tertiary quality.

delicious.

earth particles.

air particles.

fire particles.

water particles.

largely mechanistic and reliant on 'animal spirits' for movement.

moved by the soul, with no major biological functions at work.

moved mostly by pulleys and chords that all attached to a main mast in the torso.

sinful to study.

I think, therefore I am.

Doubt everything but yourself.

Remember you will die.

Mind and Body are one.

Perfection.

Unity.

Infinity.

Sight.

the brain.

the pineal gland.

the animal spirits.

the heart.

the mind's conscious experience of turbulent animal spirits.

caused by bloodflow directly to the pineal gland.

completely within the realm of the mind, and absent in the body.

an illusion.

illuminate what can be known by the human mind.

air his grievances on the needless, pedantic nature of social niceties.

criticize and deconstruct the works of Descartes.

work as a rebuttal against Leibnetz's concepts posed in 'The Monadology'.

Inherently evil, and must spend their lives 'cleaning their slate'.

Born as 'blank slates' without sin, and free to learn from experience.

A 'blank slate' for parents to impress their will into the future.

Largely independent and require little more attention than a piece of slate.

Sensations of objects and Reflections of mental ongoings.

Sensations of objects and Introspection of physical sensation.

Reflections of mental ongoings and Introspection of physical sensation.

Conflict of passions and Objectivity of sensations.

intuitive knowledge.

demonstrative knowledge.

sensitive knowledge.

foolish.

natural (contiguity)

accidental (similiarity)

illogical

concrete

A mathematical calculating machine (a precursor to modern computers).

Elaboration of binary arithmetic (representation of all numbers using ones and zeroes).

Infinitesimal calculus,

The Cartesian plane.

Continuity and change as important features of the world ; non-concrete variables that nevertheless predict reality.

Continuity and change as important features of the world ; the mechanical properties of all living things.

Non-concrete variables that nevertheless predict reality ; Math as the basis for all human understanding.

Non-concrete variables that nevertheless predict reality ; All that is true is immobile and unchangeable.

Provided an audience for Leibniz's philosophical ideals.

Financed Leibniz's work entirely.

Disagreed vehemently with Leibniz's work, and eventually had him exiled for it.

Were hired by Locke to spy on Leibniz.

The world is comprised of a hierarchy of smaller organisms residing within larger organisms.

Descartes was correct on his assumption that humans are automata.

Humans are single-celled organisms.

Windmill power can be used to power positively everything, provided the windmills are large, plentiful enough, and aimed in the correct direction.

Dynamic, energetic entities with self-awareness and the ability to propagate matter in motion.

The ideal, theoretical form of a windmill.

A series of short essays on the concept of self and his proposed hierarchy of organisms.

The different tiers in his organization of living organisms on a hierarchical scale.

bare monads.

sentient monads.

rational monads.

supreme monads.

Sight.

Apperception.

A sixth, undefineable sense.

Connection to a soul.

usually non-conscious.

immediately perceptible.

activated only in deep sleep.

non-existent in humans.