QUOTES: "[i]As I have often suggested, the real problem with Descartes’ position is not that he has trouble explaining how soul and body interact. [b]The problem is that he thinks of them as interacting in the first place. It is that he posits two substances rather than one[/b]. And the reason this is a problem is that he thereby simply fails to capture the truth about human nature.”[/i] (dhw’s bold)

“[i]This problem does not arise for the Scholastic conception of soul and body, because, again, [b]it does not regard them as distinct substances in the first place[/b]. A human being is one thing, not two, albeit a thing with both corporeal and incorporeal activities. And since it is one thing, [b]the question of interaction does not arise.[/b]" [/i](dhw’s bold)

DAVID: [i]This fits my view of soul body dualism as two interacting aspects of 'me', one material and one immaterial.[/i]

No it doesn’t. The article could hardly be more emphatic: there is NO interaction between soul and body, because a human being is ONE THING, not two! See the bolds above. This is the compromise that I have been suggesting, though I go one step further: my version is that the material brain produces immaterial thought, emotion etc. (materialism) but the product itself may be (I would emphasize “may”) a form of energy that can exist independently of its original source. Hence NDEs and other psychic experiences.