We are Nothing but a small part of something bigger, more fantastic. The Human body is nothing more than a self-regenerating modification of the attribute of Extension and the human mind is simply one of god’s many (adequate) ideas, specifically, the idea of the body (a modification of the attribute of thought). The idea of the body is affected by the body and is not static, the idea will morph with the body as the body is affected by it’s environment, the idea will make the same connections that the body makes while going about it’s world, or rather will be the idea of these connections. These connections, or ideas, are almost all inadequate, except the one’s derived from the nature of the attribute (or those properties that all modes of the same attribute have in common, the laws of the universe). I like Spinoza because he is a determinist, determinism is one of my favorite philosophical ideas for some reason.
