The Mind-Body Problem?
An illustration of what William James described in his discussion of the ideomotor.
This is a nice cartoon, and its exactly what William James described in his discussion of the ideomotor. But the mind-body problem, or the mind-brain problem, as discussed endlessly in philosophy, has to do with a reductive physicalistic view of the brain versus a reductive mentalistic view of the brain.
I think that the m/b problem is a disaster, an infinite loop that goes nowhere.
We know with considerable certainty that the mind-brain is a single entity under two different names, or two different access methods, the voluntary report of a conscious experience and the input (either endogenous or exogenous) that leads to the conscious experience.
This is not empirically problematic, and we have two centuries of sensory psychophysics to give a plausible answer.
What do you think?