There is an age-old problem in philosophy known as the “mind-body problem.” One way to state the problem is
this: what is the relationship between the mind and the body — between the mental realm (the realm of
thoughts, beliefs, sensations, emotions, etc.) and the physical realm (matter, atoms, neurons, etc.). Are your
thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, and wishes things that happen in addition to all the physical
processes in your brain, or are they themselves just some of those physical processes? Are you just a physical
object, or a soul (or, more properly, a soul-body composite)? If the former, then how can a physical system like
a brain give rise to mental states? If the latter, if the mind and the body are able to exist independently, then
just what is the nature of their two-way causal interaction?
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