The Problem With Separation Between Mind and Body

It seems a very strange mystery that they should be even able and principled to touch each other. I don't see why but I can understand in the present climate where physicalism is so rampant that people think this without questioning. But if they settled down and thought about it, they would realise that there were properties to which subject has privileged access or physical properties are publicly accessible. These make a difference to each other. So to those who say that the mind or the soul is essentially an emergent material property, do you think that they are just flatly mistaken? If they say it is an emergentmaterial property, yes. But remember how I have defined it as pure mental substanceSo their