Part 4

The Bodily Parts Formed In The Seed

by Rene Descartes Jan 24, 2025
2 min read 285 words
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How does the body grow from seed?

I specify nothing on the shape and arrangement of the particles of the seed.

Plants are hard and solid.

  • They can have their particles arranged and situated in a way which cannot be altered without making them useless.

But the seed in animals and humans is quite different.

This is quite fluid and is usually produced in the copulation between male and female.

It seems like an unorganised mixture of 2 liquids.

These act on each other like a kind of yeast, heating one another so that some of the particles acquire the same agitation as fire.

This agitation expands and presss on the others, putting them gradually into the state required for the formation of parts of the body.

The scum formed on beer is able to serve as yeast for making more beer.

Likewise, the seeds of the two sexes, when mixed together, serve as yeast to one another.

The heat generated by their mixture makes them ferment and expand and merge.*

Superphysics Note
In Bio Superphysics, this heat is the vital energy prana, So it is the prana that makes the heart beat. This prana is different from chi or vayu which Descartes calls the animal spirits. We assign prana as the Fire Element or Radiant Layer, and animal spirits as the Air Element or Spatial Layer. These are both in line with Descartes and Vedic and Taoist science.

Its heart forms which resists them.

They slowly move away and go to create the brain stem.

These go back to the heart to fill the space that they left, and then move away in a cycle.

This repeating cycle creates the beating of the heart.

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