Mind and body have been opposed and reunited in countless ways, giving rise to ideas like soul, spirit, self. Neuroscientists such as Antonio Damasio, Jaak Panksepp, and Cristina Alberini have spent decades gathering evidence for something Shakespeare imagined:

The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing – of nothing. Hamlet: IV: ii

Something material, a body. Something of nothing, a king who exists only as a projection of the body – an event we might call a story. Instead of mind and body, think of one ongoing event of registration and expression. Think of a dream as a film. It is something like that.

Your mind – a conscious representation of your body in all its fluctuating states, always emotional, never objective – is never detached from what the body carries. The two are not in dialogue. They are one thing, differently expressed.