Abstract

The new area of science is recognized after the gathering, by scientific methods, of a coherent body of empirical findings. The proposition that this paper argues is that still another of these transitions is ready for recognition; that still another classical question has recently been whittled away from philosophy. That classical issue is the mind-matter relationship. There is now a clean scientific method for research on it. Use of the method has yielded a substantial amount of data, sufficiently consistent to be considered replicable, and coherent with physical and psychological theory. The findings demonstrate a direct relationship, without the intervention of the known effectors, between changes in mental events and changes in the physical world. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)