Mind-Body Problem Solved. Is it just an alluring title or is there actual substance behind that affirmation? Read to find out, it's 100% accurate.
You're in for a shocker. It can't be anything else.
An ongoing 450-year debate launched by Descartes' philosophy asserts the mind-body problem represents two separate, distinct entities as opposed to one. Nobody has settled this issue until now. It's 2022 and time to broach this exciting, earth-girdling, current issue. Why? Because it's directly related to the No. 1 world health woe in the 21st century, and it's not Covid-19, it's mental health.
The accumulated brains of Science, Religion, and Philosophy over the last 450 years have come up empty-handed, not to say empty-headed. Why? There's got to be a reason. Not only that, but that reason must be hidden, otherwise these investigative disciplines would've found it. After all, they have looked, and are looking high and low, far and wide.
Here's the evaluation. Science has spent 450 years investigating and measuring the PHYSICAL Universe. Religion has drawn its inspiration from a spiritual well. However, that well is a mixture of tradition going back thousands of years, causing the water to be tainted; you can't see through murky waters. Its own self-enlightenment has guided philosophy, limited by the capacity of our brainpower, coupled with unlimited human imagination. This chatter has taken us into every contradictory cranny on a jagged path of enlightenment.
The solution is not in science, religion, or philosophy! If it were, all the combined intellect would've revealed the solution. Instead, it is cacophonic.
If you're going to read this book, you've got to know from the outset the approach is going to be totally different. There are few references to science, philosophy, or religion in the solution. There are call-outs to science when discussing material aspects, cells, the brain, light, and other physical phenomena. The solution is NOT in opposition to science; it includes many scientifically proven facts.
But it goes way beyond science because the solution to the mind-body problem finds neither its ORIGIN nor its CONCLUSION in that discipline. No more than in philosophy or religion. Yes, we will refer to aspects of philosophy and religion, but there again, those disciplines cannot and are not our starting point for this quest. All these disciplines, as great as they may be, are far too limited to solve this problem.