Exploring the Interface of Physical and Non-Physical Entities

It can be readily observed that the wind, a non-physical entity, is able to interact with physical entities such as trees. Does this contradict the belief that the soul, a non-physical entity, is unable to interact with the body?

In the reading Philosophy Before Socrates by Robert Mckirahan I was impressed by the elements discussed in the story on Democritus. The idea of the element of wind prompted the questions of physical and non- physical entities in my mind. When I consider the tree and the process of photosynthesis that requires chlorophyll, and the chemist approach to distilling that very chlorophyll the relations comes to mine. Would that relationship be the same if we was to ask the chemist to distill the photosynthesis? Would this relationship be different due to the non-physical abilities of the photosynthesis? Both philosophers and scientists believe the brain creates a physical process that creates thoughts. It is in this thought that relationship between the mental and physical realm can become causal. It’s important to highlight that the brain (like photosynthesis) can’t be isolated from the physical body. In the case of another physical element the wind comes to mind. The wind is composed of material entities, such as molecules of oxygen and nitrogen, all of which creates a rapid movement that

He says that Daedalus created the movement of the wooden statue of Aphrodite by pouring liquid metal onto it. Democritus speaks similarly, since he says that moving atoms, whose nature is never to stay still, highlight the body and then move it. But we will ask if these same things also produce rest. How they will do so is nearly impossible to state. Basically, the soul does not appear to move the body in this way, but through choice of some kind and through