Jones continues:
“having argued that there is a distinction between the mind/soul and body, we need to ask about the nature of that relation. in particular, we want to ask whether the soul/mind can exist apart from the body or separately from the body. . . . the soul is to the body as a captain is to a ship. that is, the captain governs the ship, but the captain is a being that is ontologically distinct from the ship and can exist when not on the ship. . . . the intellectual operation of the soul acts independently of the body. . . . the intellectual soul has its own substantial existence. that is, it can exist separately from the body.”
in making the case for dualist interaction between the immaterial cognitive mind of man and the material processes of the brain’s synaptic networks, we see the mind as the “captain” and the “ship” as the synaptic networks and body, a good analogy. we live to have the holy spirit become our “captain.”