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Quote by: Yasa  And as you may know, Descartes' postulation sparked the mind-body problem that many philosophers tried to solve and is still unresolved to this day. How is it that immaterial substance can affect matterial things? There is no good explanation and most appeal to ignorance and cop out by saying "it's impossible to know how it works", "magic" (or some version of saying this), "through god's unknowable powers", etc. |
The inmatterial mind doesn't influence the body to do anything. It is the brain -and neurology is very much matterial- that influences the body. The mind only is a projection of the neurological prosseces. It's not the mind itslef that commands the body, it is the brain, and the mind just happens to be an "image" (lacking a better word) of the brain.
If I broke a chair in front of a mirror, it would be me, not my mirror image, that broke the chair.