IMO the mind is not seperate from the body and the body is not separate from the rest of the universe. Different living things in the same universe are akin to different flowers on the same tree, or as the article in your second link suggests, like different neurons in the same brain. The author is insistent on seeing all things on a materialistic level, but scripture makes a lot more sense when you equate God == universe; God == totality. That way, the Christian logic whereby God is Jesus's father and Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit that is the cosmic process that drives the universe from one moment to the next makes complete sense. As Moses once said 'Ye are Gods' and it can be the literal truth.
The author seems to ignore the fact that eastern traditions made just such a separation long before 550bce. It would have been more correct to note that this research was limited to western 'classical' thinkers.
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