Medicine systematically underestimates the ambiguity and complexity of the relationship between our minds and our bodies. Tangentially and more generally, it s

Medicine systematically underestimates the ambiguity and complexity of the relationship between our minds and our bodies. Tangentially and more generally, it seems to completely ignore that the hard problem of consciousness is unsolved and the mainstream idea of causality pointing from material world to consciousness—X is wrong with your body, hence neurons fire, hence you feel pain—is essentially an unprovable conjecture. When it somehow works, it is very good at creating an impression that we know what we are doing, but it strikes me at being more or less in shambles at some fundamental level.