Then the question becomes - what is feeling? Descartes seemed to miss the boat when he talked about being lodged in the body as a vessel. I think that the mind and body are entwined.

I work in a surgeon's office. We have a person who was injured on-the-job when his hand was caught in presser machine. It crushed his hand and he lost two fingers. He still complains of pain in those fingers, of sensation where he has no nerves and the sense of the fingers still being there. The phenomenon is described as phantom pain and is quite common in the medical world. There is interaction between mind and body even if the body part is missing. It can't be proven, it can't be solved. You can't prescribe a pain reliever for a stump that should feel no pain. But you can solve the pain from the brain. If you heal the wound in the brain with counseling (or whatever) then the physical sensation of "pain" is reduced.

Ryle talks about (page 124) a person's collateral history of his body is public and his mind is private. For a caregiver or a loved one of someone who suffers from Alzheimer's disease this makes perfect sense. I once took care of a wonderful man who had Alzheimers. I fed him, cleaned him, walked beside him for long walks and never heard him talk. His mind was gone into a universe that I will never be a part of. But his body continued to function. The day he died, he looked at me and called me by name to thank me. So perhaps the mind is always private. Or perhaps he had one fleeting moment to share his privacy.

This all seems entirely too logical to me to be philosophical!