How/why the mind-body problem is hard

Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (4):54-61 (2000)
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[opening paragraph]: [B]rain-imaging studies . . . demonstrate in ever more detail how specific kinds of mental activity are precisely correlated with specific patterns of brain activity . Mind/Brain correlations: We've known about them for decades, probably centuries. And that's still all we've got with brain imaging; and that's all we'll have even when we get the correspondence fine-tuned right down to the last mental ‘just noticeable difference’ and its corresponding molecule.

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