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Hello at the start of René Descartes 6 meditation he writes there is a great difference between mind and body in as much as body

is by nature always divisible and mind is entirely indivisible.

For when I consider the mind or myself insofar as I am merely a thinking thing, I am unable to distinguish many parts within myself.

I understand myself to be something quite single and complete.

Although the whole mind seems to be united to the whole body,

I recognize that if a foot or an arm or any other part of the body is cut off,

nothing has thereby been taken away from the mind.

This thinking is the basis of what's known as Cartesian dualism.

Descartes attempt to address one of the central questions in philosophy,

The mind-body problem.

Is the mind part of the body or the body part of the mind?

If they are distinct then how do they interact and which of the two is in charge?

We need to discuss the mind body problem is Anthony Graling, reader in philosophy at Birkbeck London University,

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