solving the mind-body problem

Damasio claims it "requires a change in perspective." Looking for Spinoza, p. 191. I agree.

He writes that "the critical interface between body-proper activities and the mental patterns we call images consists of specific brain regions employing circuits of neurons to consctruct continual, dynamic neural patterns corresponding to different activities in the body—in effect, mapping those activities as they occur" (p. 195).

It's all parts of the body for Damasio. He's the only one I've read who points out that neurons are living things. This is very different from some kind of electrical cable.

It's all body. Or you could say our body is all brain. I think we are close to a solution if stop separating body and brain.
I guess you also need to unite thoughts and actions. There is no separation between the brain "deciding" to move a limb and the movement of the limb. The action is the whole body moving. The whole body feels and things and the whole body responds. Our body can look ahead and imagine consequences of actions. It can also respond instinctively. It might also be caught between the two (consciousness?). Consciousness as a lag time to allow for processing? A stretching out of time to allow for a more-than-instinctual reaction?