Are the early suttas against the view that mind is an emergent property from the body?

But science has said no such thing. Science has told us the physical workings of the brain and how if the brain is influenced within a certain way mind will be experienced in another way, but that doesn’t tell us that the mind emerges from matter. It tells us nothing about the mind at all really. Science can’t answer the problem of consciousness. It’s beyond it’s reach. Science can only tell us about functional consciousness. It can’t tell us anything about phenomenal consciousness.

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