ABSTRACT
St Augustine said: what time is I know when I don’t ask myself; but when I ask what it is I no longer know. Similarly, we have no problem with the concepts of mind and body in use; but when we turn our thoughts on them, ask ourselves ‘what is mind?’ and ‘how is it related to our body?’ they fall apart. Descartes gave a clear voice to the temptations which make themselves felt when we ask such questions and he gave in to them thus formulating his dualistic account of the mind and the body.
