Russell (1961: 546):
The theory [relating soul to body] appeared to have two merits. The first was that it made the soul, in a sense, wholly independent of the body, since it was never acted on by the body. The second was that it allowed the general principle: 'one substance cannot act on another'. There were two substances, mind and matter, and they were so dissimilar that an interaction seemed inconceivable.
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Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, the distinction between the "substances" of mind and matter is the distinction between the domains of mental processes and material processes.
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