Mind Body

This ancient paradox—it's known as the mind-body problem—has long perplexed philosophers. ❋ Jonah Lehrer (2011)

That 16th century French philosopher asserted that the mind and body, the "thinking machine" and the "doing machine," occupy separate spheres, a belief now called "mind-body dualism." ❋ David Kirp (2011)

When I occasionally achieve what some instructors call the mind-body connection, I close my eyes and find myself drifting away from the everyday worries of life. ❋ Jack Canfield (2010)

That problem is as insoluble as the so-called mind-body problem that goes along with it. ❋ Mortimer J. Adler (1982)

This view famously leads to the difficult question of how these different substances could interact, known as the "mind-body problem". ❋ Clare Carlisle (2011)

But a huge mystery, known as the mind-body problem, is being begged. ❋ Deepak Chopra (2011)

Indeed, to stand up for mind-body dualism in an academic setting today is to look as foolish and naive as a flat-earther. ❋ Clay Farris Naff (2011)

I had been educated to believe that spiritual healing was either a myth, a lie, or the result of mind-body placebo effects. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)

Sometime in the 1980s, the mind-body connection became an object of fascination for the public at large—and, in doing so, what had been an either/or debate became an all-of-the-above smorgasbord. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

Mr. Lu says he has hired his own staff of 20 to design a new image for Li Ning aimed at tapping into the common view in the U.S. that Eastern culture understands nature, balance and a mind-body connection. ❋ Laurie Burkitt (2011)

If you are a skeptic and/or a conventional psychologist, you will presume that what I experienced was either a rare chance event and/or some sort of double-placebo mind-body effect. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)

This is mind-body medicine at its best and most sacred. ❋ Tami Lynn Kent (2011)

We could also speculate that the healing was entirely the result of a mind-body effect. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)

As we discussed in the previous chapter, it is scientifically responsible to consider first various horse-like explanations—such as fraud, misperceptions, and placebo or mind-body effects—before entertaining zebra-like explanations—such as genuine assistance from deceased physicians, angels, and ultimately, the Sacred. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)

When philosophers talk about explaining consciousness, or when they speak of the mind-body problem, this is what they are trying to explain. ❋ Unknown (2010)