The Expressive Function and the Mind-BodyProblem [Leib-SeelenProblem]

The language of the pure expressive function is treated as meaningful and intelligible only if it can be translated into the language of the substantial metaphysical view of the world, into the language of substance-concepts and causal-concepts. Only the change of illumination, the change from the aspect of experience to the metaphysical aspect, creates that strange twilight and dim light in which the mind-body-problem has stood throughout the history of metaphysics. The characteristic mode of inferring, by which the general relationship of metaphysics to the lived mind-body-problem is determined, comes to light with exemplary pregnancy and clarity. The mythical worldview has already executed the rupture: in myth, the dualism separating the duality of elements into a substantial separation of two essential beings has already been introduced. By a primordial decree of fate, the mind is confined to the cycle of corporeal becoming, fastened to the “wheel of births”.