The mind-body problem arises from confusing my body-for-me with the body-as-object.

Evidence

THE problem of the body and its relations with consciousness is often obscured by the fact that while the body is from the start posited as a certain thing having its own laws and capable of being defined from outside, consciousness is then reached by the type of inner intuition which is peculiar to it. Actually if after grasping “my” consciousness in its absolute interiority and by a series of reflective acts, I then seek to unite it with a certain living object composed of a nervous system, a brain, glands, digestive, respiratory, and circulatory organs whose very matter is capable of being analyzed chemically into atoms of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, etc., then I am going to encounter insurmountable difficulties. But these difficulties all stem from the fact that I try to unite my consciousness not with my body but with the body of others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 825

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the crucial Sartrean distinction between the body as it is for me (the lived body of consciousness) and the body as it is for others (the object on the dissection table).
• XREF: This is the ontological core that Merleau-Ponty extends in Phenomenology of Perception, and directly frames Beauvoir’s treatment of the lived vs. objectified body. — connects to: The Other’s look reveals my body as an object-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 913; The Other’s perspective reveals my own body as merely worldly; Certain philosophical problems like the mind–body problem may be fundamentally unknowable by humans due to cognitive closure. — Cognitive closure (philosophy)

Broader Connections

• The Other’s look reveals my body as an object-for-others #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 913
• The Other’s perspective reveals my own body as merely worldly #expands (0.78)