[JetAlone]

I don't think we can scientifically solve the mind-body problem either. Scientifically, we've been able to pile up some evidence against the brain being remote-controlled through an extremely simple, uni-faceted direct channel of instructions. We're also able to demonstrate that the physical has a profound effect on the mental, which anyone with a source of drugs could have told us millennia ago.

Speaking of, I'll take you up on the offer for a drink.

I tend to think something like a combination of the 3rd substance and panpsychism model accounts for our experience in context of discoveries that make descartes pineal gland theory seem dubious.

[DiggyJohnson]

Thanks for the reply! And yes - if you end up within 100 miles of Charleston, SC, I quite seriously will oblige.

Thank you for your comment. I haven't engaged much with "3rd substance and panpsychism" much, so that'll be on my procrastinating reading list this week. I'm writing a book about Why We Play certain games, and I'm always tempted by the rabbit hole that is M-B problem.

Maybe thinking about the M-B is one of the things that distinguishes Man?

Thanks for wading through, I'd have bet dollars to donuts I wouldn't get a response. Cheers :)