  Bookmark and Share  The psychophysical problem of the artist
is long standing and, probably, intractable: we have a corporeal
body. It is a physical entity, subject to all the laws of
physics. Yet: we experience our selves, our internal lives and
external events, in a manner that provokes us to postulate the
existence of a corresponding, non-physical, entity. This
corresponding entity ostensibly incorporates a dimension of our
being which, in principle, can never be tackled with the
instruments and the formal logic of science.  A compromise was
proposed long ago: the soul is nothing but our self-awareness,
or the way that we experience ourselves. But this is a flawed
solution. It is flawed because it assumes that the human
experience is uniform, unequivocal and identical. It might well
be so — but there is no methodologically rigorous way of proving
it. We have no way to objectively ascertain that all of us
experience pain in the same manner or that the pain we
experience is the same in all of us. This is e