This is a genuine woosh bro. The mind/matter gap has always been a distinct part of western philosophy. The best we have are “compromises” that may or may not be logically sound, like Kant’s phenomenal world. But even in the 1700s, David Hume, a SCOTTISH EMPIRICIST (those most concerned with evidence), developed the idea that all observations are simply related in time, and it’s the human psychological urge to organize that gives any correlation at all. Otherwise, you’re left with a dogmatic, unchanging interpretation of science, not an actual scientific method based on falsifiability and reinterpretation. The best we have for “truth” is universal assent, as in most people agree.