Temperaments are conditions conceived as both something like personality and something like mood disorders, as well as bodily dispositions to particular illnesses.
The long-term consequences of such voluntary, imaginative practice is to reshape our internal bodily "dispositions" so that they produce specific passions under the appropriate, rationally endorsed circumstances.
In any case, Descartes clearly allows that our passions, based as they are on internal bodily dispositions to be moved by external objects, can conflict with our rationally considered evaluations of those objects – or what would be our evaluations, had we the time for proper deliberation.
Many PSWs recounted instances where residents' previous vocation instilled particular bodily dispositions.
His experiment shows that, although our emotional life is an extension of innate emotional responsive dispositions and tendencies, the bodily responses and facial expressions are not fully replaced by a 'cognitive emotional life'.
"Since indeed the actions of beasts … can be explained simply by the disposition of their spirits and other bodily parts, and since entities should not be multiplied without necessity, we have no reason to attribute any intellect to beasts" (Regius 1646, 241 42).
Malebranche takes such association to operate as does the mechanical causation found in bodily events, especially where there are "secret alliances with the present disposition of our body" (ST V.12, 407).
Furthermore, we used the first questionnaire dealing with interoception: the Private Body Consciousness Scale (PBCS, [ 39]), which measures a disposition to focus on internal processes, a sensitivity for bodily changes, and the awareness of interoceptive feedback.
For Lewis, directing is an art of inches, but those inches depend not merely on space but on physical disposition, on posture and attitude, on the meticulous control of otherwise unconscious bodily processes.
Each of the main passions receives a detailed description of the bodily changes that accompany it, such as changes in color, body temperature, facial expression, disposition of the limbs and the like, which can in turn be attributed to the movements of the spirits and heart.
