The text discusses the disparity between thoughts and actions and how distraction often leads to mistakes. It suggests that while we may not understand how thought processes happen, denial of their occurrence is unwise. The abilities of the mind, like understanding and voluntary action, depend on the physical makeup of the body.
Actual Engagements
It is known that when our thoughts do not align well with most of our actions, or when we are distracted by other tasks, we often make mistakes. For instance, we speak and write inappropriately at times; we might call Peter by the name Paul because we often don't think as we walk, sometimes we walk right past our own house in broad daylight. And the bride, so engrossed in conversation with her love, cut the neckline of her own dress all the way down to the collar out of distraction. Thus, we sometimes work without paying attention to the tools and the matter at hand. However, to think that we can think without the act of thinking, without the knowledge or awareness of the tools through which we perform our thinking (since that would imply the soul is a body) is altogether ridiculous.
Now, the reasoning mind operates upon the body's tools, and when we consequently, with an understanding of our actions, move and determine where we wish, we experience this continuously within ourselves. But since we do not understand the manner and method of how this happens, we cannot, therefore, deny its occurrence, nor can we give reason sufficient to refuse belief in it, that the reasoning mind is, in fact, a corporeal entity. The capabilities of thought, understanding, willingness, voluntary action, and shared knowledge of consciousness depend on the artistic composition of our bodies, animal spirits, internal organs, arteries, blood flow, and similar matters.