What is the mind/body problem?

Have a little read: ... What is the mind/body problem? Philosophers have long been perplexed over the problem of how our body and mind interact in our lives. The mind is the mental states or processes, not the brain and controls our sensations and emotions. The mind and the body are made up of different substances. The mind is purely conscious and is non-spatial, that is it takes up no room in space. The body takes up room in space, but is not consciousness. The problem is if the mind and body are made up of different substances how do they interact? It seems strange to try and explain how something does not exist in space could effect something spatial. How can the mind and the body interact when the mind is a non-physical? The mind is non-spatial, how could it then makes the body the move through space? This perplexity has lead to many different views on how the mind and body interact. What reasons does the dualist provide for the view that the mind is not the body? Dualism is the view that mind and matter are profoundly different- so different that understanding one of them leaves basic facts about the other unexplained, (Morton, PAGE NO_____1996). Dualistsists argue that reality is made up two substances, that of the physical and the non-physical. Mental events are non-physical, they do not exist in space and the body, which is physical. Mental events or thoughts are private, no body else apart from you knows what you are thinking, the only indication another person can have about your thoughts is from your behaviour. Thoughts are purely subjective. "The idea of how a mental and a physical term might refer to the same thing.....and the usual analogies with theoretical identification in other fields fail to supply it, (Nagle, 441). Mental events are never publicly observable. Physical things are located in space, for example my body or my house are all located in space, my thoughts are not. Hospers, explained that if you saw red spots before your eyes, where are the spots? (Hospers, 173). They do not exist in the physical world, they are said to be in phenomenal space. They are not physical spots such as the spot on a Dalmatian, but there is still the experience of seeing spots. My body is always located in space, even if there is no-body else there to observe it still exists in physical