Mind_And_Body

Mind And Body The Mind-Body Issue The mind/body issue in philosophy asks many questions. At first, what are these things, these substances, that we call ‘mind’ and ‘body’' What are their individual natures' Are they the same thing' Or are they fundamentally different things' And if they are different, how do they interact' Do they interact' And if they interact, for what purpose do they interact' Such questions have plagued philosophy since at least Plato, leading some to privilege mind over matter, and leading others to believe that all that exists is mind idealism, and still others to argue that all that exists are bodies or physical matter materialism. In idealism and materialism, there would seem to be a similar impulse to make the mind/body problem go away. But true theories of mind and body do not attempt to rid one side of the equation, either mind or body, but rather attempt to account for both sides in a coherent theory. Still, as noted, many philosophies and religions attempt to answer the question of mind and body by simply subordinating one side to the other. For example, it would seem that many, but mind, body, things, descartes, physical, one, substances, god, both, thing, interact, think, seem, same, plato, part, ideas, different, cannot, between, value, thinking, substance, separate, philosophy, minds, matter, knowledge, know, immaterial, gland, existence, bodies, because, upon