 Consequently, the parts of the organic body are the instruments for the operations specifically performed by living beings; operations that are divided into three different kinds: vegetative (bodily, non-cognitive), sensitive (bodily, cognitive) and intellectual (non-bodily, cognitive). These operations must, then, correspond to three specifically different faculties of the soul, which are responsible for the actualization of the organic body’s potential with regard to those operations (QDA-2012-II: 343 and 345).