The History of the Mind Body Problem

The mind body problem has been around for a long time. When you think about the the history of thinking about the soul, one can probably go back further. Many philosophers, materialists, like hobbes, raised this issue that they couldn't really see what was the mechanism or the medium by which my mind and matter could interact. But jeguankim rightly points out that there is what he calls decot's revenge. People who think they can solve thep this way, i haven't thought hard enough.