The Ghost in the Machine, Again

The Auld Problem

James Chastek comments on Stephen Pinker's refutation of the soul (as envisaged by S. Pinker). 

How does the spook interact with solid matter? How does an ethereal nothing respond to flashes, pokes and beeps and get arms and legs to move?

Ah yes, the interaction problem. Is that still around? Apparently so.

By "spook," Pinker evidently means the "soul."  But the use of the term betrays a profound misunderstanding of what traditional philosophers have meant by that...