ABSTRACT
The subject of theories of the mind is an exceedingly technical and complicated field of philosophical and scientific history. There are many terms that are exceedingly abstruse with a great variety and subtlety of meaning and referents. There are many views, concepts, methods of approach, historical trends, and perceived ranges of subject matter. The mind-body problem, as we saw in Chapter 1, is really a number of overlapping subproblems with explanations that are not mutually exclusive on the one hand, or all inclusive on the other. Some are comprehensive, some limited, some extreme, some mild, some obviously absurd, and some seductively plausible.
