According to the text, even though Fechner was an exceptional scientist, he also was a “satirist, philosopher, and a mystic.” Apparently, these viewpoints would be incompatible with science and therefore, it would also be professional suicide for him. Consequently, Fechner created a satirical character named “Dr. Mises, who became his pseudonym. Thus under this name, he wrote a total of six books in which he was able to speak freely about the subjects of his choice. He was anxious to solve the mind-body situation in a manner that would satisfy the materialistic scientists of his time. In response to this, Fechner developed a solution to the mind-body situation called “psychophysical parallelism” or “dual aspect theory”, which became very popular
