What is Mind

On the other side, the body entails the physical part of the brain including the brain neurons. Precisely, the mind-body problem entails the way the two aspects interact with each other. Therefore, this essay will explore the mind-body problem by looking at the research direction from the past seven years. The major concern in philosophy is the mind-body problem there is an effort to explain whether the mind is part of the body or vice versa. In the case that both the body and the mind are separate, it is vital to find out the way in which they interact. This argument makes it clear that the body cannot exist without the mind (Popper, 2013). This claim postulates that this is completely two different substances.

Substance dualism came when it was realized that it was hard to overcome the difficulty of Cartesian dualism (Crane and Patterson, 2012). Research depicts that the physical (body) and the non-physical (mind) could not interact resulting in a huge problem in dualism. As such there was a need for the two to interact but it didn't this is the reason why substance dualism emerged. This is another argument to strengthen my belief in substance dualism because I can comprehend from personal experiences. The argument is also strong enough to convince philosophers to subscribe to the idea of substance dualism. However, there are also some arguments that oppose substance dualism. One of the arguments against substance dualism is explanatory impotence. Explanatory impotence is whereby the materialists have the power to explain all physical things via a scientific study while dualists cannot explain anything just because there is no theory that has ever been formulated to support their argument (Popper, 2013).