What do you know about mind-body problem? Are you interested in mind-body problem? Keep reading cause this book shall show you the depth study about mind-body relation.
This book is about the so-called mind-body problem:
- How is it that we seem to have free will, yet our bodies are physical objects subject to physical law?
- How do electro-chemical impulses in the brain provide us with our rich perceptual world?
In short, what is our nature - are we robots or agents?
- Are we the effect of our genes and upbringing, or can we actually cause events?
- If so how?
These questions are important because much of our legal, political and economic systems, as well as our sciences and medicine
are predicated on assumed answers (and the answers are not the same across these disciplines).
In this volume the focus is on the history of the mind-body problem.
The first chapter describes the author's philosophical approach to the mind-body problem which is anti-reductionist.
The remainder of this volume focuses on the history of the subject which is important because historical answers are difficult to shake
off and they keep reappearing in new guises. There are few arguments in the modern era that are not presaged and argued centuries ago.