 The rational soul has three faculties—vegetative, sensitive and intellectual—of which the sensitive and the intellectual are cognitive. The sensitive faculty is bodily because its operations fully depend on bodily organs. It includes the external senses—touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight—as well as the so-called internal senses—common sense, phantasia and memory. By contrast, the intellectual faculty is separate, i.e., with respect to the body, because it does not depend for its operation on bodily organs, even though it is triggered by a representation obtained from the senses. Accordingly, Simon, like Albert and Aquinas, rejects the position of those who, like Avicenna and Averroes, posit some kind of metaphysical separation of the intellect from the human body.