ABSTRACT
What is the solution to the mind-body problem in general, in detail? The answers to these questions have varied over the numerous epochs of human history, but generally it can be agreed that man has attempted to determine the
relationship between his body and his mind by generating theories or explanations that provide satisfactory answers in the context of the intellectual and technological environment of each epoch. The answeres were, at various times in history, based upon premises that either treated the mind as a separate and distinct entity (the soul) that survived the body or, in total contrast, treated the mind as nothing more than the function of a material information processor. If there is any consistency among the classic explanatory models, it is that the mind has been taken as a real thing, as an entity that itself must be explained and related. In light of these classic models, the modern concept of mind as a process, rather than a thing, is a highly revolutionary development. Curiously, the concept of the body-another aspect of the problem-has been somewhat more variable in spite of the fact that it is more tangible. From time to time, various organs have been proposed to be the seat, locus, or receptacle of the mental processes.
