ABSTRACT
These seven points obviously indicate a very different view from the one which seems so widespread at present. To these seven points I shall add an eighth:
(8) We know that, but we do not know how, mind and body interact; but this is not surprising since we have really no definite idea how physical things interact. Nor do we know how mental events interact, unless we believe in a theory of mental events and their interaction which is almost certainly false: in associationism. The theory of the association of ideas is a theory which treats mental events or processes like things (ideas, pictures) and their interaction as due to something like an attractive force. Associationism is therefore probably just one of those materialist metaphors which we almost always use when trying to speak about mental events.
