The mind is the idea of the body. All matter, animate and inanimate, moves toward complex organization in the ultimate open system of the universe. This striving [conatus] increases the levels of consciousness in the body, again whether the body is an atom, molecule, plant, animal, human, galaxy. The universe is the repository and dispensary of infinite intellect. Dualism exists in the concept and execution of the one substance. At least, that’s what I can understand of Spinoza.