What is Philosophy of mind?
[[File:Phrenology1.jpg|thumb|200px|A [[Brain mapping|mapping]]<ref>Oliver Elbs, ''Neuro-Esthetics: Mapological foundations and applications (Map 2003)'', (Munich 2005)</ref> of the [[brain]] from the 1800s. [[Phrenology]] was one way that tried to explain the brain in the past, although it is now considered wrong.]] '''Philosophy of mind''' is one part of [[philosophy]] that works with the [[mind]]. It is about thinking how the mind works, and how it relates to the world. It also deals with [[consciousness]], which is also researched in [[psychology]] and [[physics]]. ==Mind-body problem== The mind-body problem is the main problem that is talked about in philosophy of mind. It is the problem of how our minds and our bodies are related, and what exactly the mind is. Many different answers have been come up with to solve the mind-body problem. Most of them fall into the two groups of [[Dualism (philosophy of mind)|dualism]] and [[monism]]. === Dualism as an answer to the mind-body problem === {{Main article|Dualism (philosophy of mind)}} [[Dualism]] is the belief that minds and bodies are separate things. One of the main dualist views comes from [[René Descartes]] and is named [[Cartesian dualism]], or substance dualism. Descartes thought that minds and bodies were two completely different substances (like [[matter]]) in the world. He argued that consciousness was different from the brain.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39606836|title=Discourse on method ; and : Meditations on first philosophy|last=Descartes|first=René|date=1998|publisher=Hackett Pub|others=Donald A. Cress|isbn=0-87220-421-9|edition=4th|location=Indianapolis|oclc=39606836}}</ref> One reason to believe dualism is that when you ask most people what the mind is, they would say it is their personality or their soul. They would almost certainly deny that the mind simply is the brain, or vice versa, finding the idea that there is just one [[Ontology|''ontological'']] thing at play to be too machine-like.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter= S|