Substantial Motion and Self aware Soul: Does Mulla Sadra's "Substantial Motion" theory provide a reliable framework for the Explanation of the Relationship between Body and Soul?
One of the major challenges that humankind have not properly dealt with is Mindbody problems. Through which ways, an immaterial entity (Soul) emerges out of a material body, and the relationship that exists between these two entities have constantly stimulated proposed explanations to find novel models in this regard. Mulla Sadra"s "substantial motion theory" suggests providing an extensive explanation concerning the relationship between mind and soul. Sadra considered "change" as an all pervasive reality running through the entire universe including the category of substance. According to Sadra, in certain circumstances that have the potential to occur only in humans, for the aforementioned reason, matter changes essentially and converts to the soul. Mutational changes occur in the substance of matter like the emergence of life out of unliving matter, and self aware soul"s appearance out of unaware matter. Based on Mulla Sadra"s perspective, contemplating, along with investigating the situations based on this fundamental transformation, endorses sufficient perception of the relation between spirit and body.