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The Mystery of Mind: A systematic account of the human mind toward understanding its own realization

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This book is about the trials and tribulations of the human mind toward understanding the wherewithal of its own realization. It is designed, in my view, to play several roles. One is to offer philosophy students an overall perspective on the ins and outs of the old dualism-materialism controversy over the existence of disembodied souls, as well as the historical relevance of immaterialism (idealism) to this debate. Another is to show why the traditional model of mind to which many of us still implicitly subscribe is mistaken, and to offer an alternative concept of mind that is more user friendly to the materialist cause. Thirdly, it is to offer students in the philosophy of mind a critical bird¡¦s eye view over the contemporary materialist landscape together with the various approaches that have been taken toward dissolving the traditional mind-body problem. Lastly, it is to propose a way of bringing this very old problem to a possible resolution in the light of what is known, as against the darkness of what is yet to be fully understood.
The author is school in philosophy and religion. But he is not academic philosopher. This book is the fruit of five years of hard labor subsequent to his retirement from active employment. It is his way of squaring himself with issues that have been left dangling at the back of his mind for the last thirty years. At the end of it all, it is his contention that it does not really take a soul to have a mind, having a functioning body-brain is already sufficient.