 Any plausible panpsychism will have to say something about how human minds differ from all other minds that populate reality. Spinoza accounts for the distinctiveness of the human mind in two ways. First, as already noted, he underscores its complexity as a mental operation or act of thinking. Using the Scholastic term “formal being” to pick out this aspect of thinking, he writes, “the idea that constitutes the formal being of the human mind is…composed of a great many ideas” (E2p15). Second, Spinoza proposes that human minds are also distinct by virtue of what they essentially represent: the essential intentional object of the human mind is an actually existing body: