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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...

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