Is the mind some separate, non-material entity piloting a machine of flesh?

Long before Descartes famously declared,I think, therefore I am,
and long after that,scientists and philosophers alike have puzzled over what they call the mind-body problem.
Is the mind some separate, non-material entity piloting a machine of flesh?Or if it's just a particularly elusive part
of our physical body,how can it translate the input of our
animal senses into the seemingly non-physical experiences that we call thoughts?But though the answers have been
debated endlessly,new research suggests that part of the problem lies in how we pose the question in the first place,
assuming a distinction between our sensory perception and our ideas that may not really be there.