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The Never-ending Question: Are We a Mind, a Body or Both? Of all the topics that are currently occupying the attention of philosophers, the Mind-Body problem is at center stage. It is one of the classical metaphysical issues concerning the relationship between that which is mental and that which is physical. The simple question asked is: what are we? Are we a mind, a body or both? The issue has its origins in the ancient …

…Eliminativists do a much better job. The fact that science can back up claims made by the Eliminativists plays a big part in my leaning towards them. “The mind-body problem is the problem of what the mind is, what the body is, and especially, what relation they stand in to each other”(1). Throughout this paper, my intent was not to show which is true, but which seems most plausible and “the task was not easy”(20).