The oldest problem in the philosophy of mind is the mind-body relationship that dates back to Plato, Aristotle and the Behaviorists, and still there isn’t a definite answer on what the relationship between the two is. According to psychologists Andrew Gummow at Northern Illinois University and Adrian Janit, the body-mind relationship can be defined as the relationship between the body and its unique mind. This relationship can be divided into two categories: monistic and dualistic. Monistic theories suggest that mind and body are not separate substances. Thinkers like Aristotle, Hobbs, Hegel, and the Behaviorists, the materialists, claimed that the mind was nothing more than a bodily function. Berkeley, Leibniz, and Schopenhauer, the idealists, were monists of a different sort; they theorized that the body was simply a mental representation. Spinoza proposed that mind and body were the manifestations of some third property-- God. As for the Dualist view, mind is thought to be of a substance other than a physical substance. Popular dualists were Descartes, Locke, and James. All these theories have a slight variation from each other because everyone thinks differently; therefore having different views about the mind and the body.
From my point of view, I think the mind-body connection is very difficult to understand because it’s so unclear and dense. Trying to understand it, I believe the mind-body connection is a sense of self, being one with each other. The mind and body are two sides of the same coin. Like a coin head and tail, the mind and the body can be distinguished, but cannot be separated or exist without the other. I think the brain is a part of the body, and the mind is a part of the brain, therefore the mind is a byproduct of the body. Because it is a byproduct of the body, the mind can affect it by telling the brain which then tells the rest of the body what to do. The body can affect the mind as well. There are times people tend to do things...