Daily Archives: November 26th, 2008

The Mind-Body Isomorphism?

Is the mind body connection an isomorphism?  That is, is there a one-to-one correspondence between them?  Maybe.
It is well known that physical changes to the body alter the mental representation of  it. Following amputation, for example, there is significant alteration of the somatosensory cortex, the part of the brain onto which the body is mapped. [...]