We've always been curious about how the mind and body are connected Dualism is a philosophical concept that concludes that the mind is separate from the body, and therefore mental phenomena are ...

In this view, the mind is made of mental substance while the body is made of physical substance. This form of dualism is commonly referred to as substance or Cartesian dualism.

Descartes, a 17th-century philosopher, introduced the concept of dualism, which posits a distinction between the mind and the body. He argued that the soul possesses self-awareness and that the ...