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Our fascination with the nature of the human person has been a consistent driving force behind a variety of academic disciplines.This is especially evident within the domain of philosophy in general and within the more specialized areas of philosophy of mind and action in particular.Two issues that have been a mainstay throughout the history of philosophy can be encapsulated in the following two questions:what is the nature of mind (consciousness) and how does the mind causally interact with the world (agency)? The so-called mind-body problem,as Jaegwon Kim sees it,nicely juxtaposes these two issues:
There are two problems that truly make the mind-body problem a Weltknoten,an intractable and perhaps ultimately insoluble puzzle.They concern mental causation and consciousness...as it turns out,the two problems are interconnected-the two knots are intertwined,and this makes it all the more difficult to unsnarl either of them.