An important topic Steven, but I found your response to be very muddled.

Either monism is true or it isn't.

If we are just a physical body, in just a physical universe, then we are trapped in a completely mechanistic system. Everything that happens, including the noises (words) we make, is nothing but the consequence of the laws of physics operating on matter. "You" and "I" don't exist as discreet entities and have no control over anything.

Clearly though, you and I are largely in control of what we write and say. To suggest otherwise is to descend into utter madness.

So physical monism is immediately and obviously wrong.

Logically we must be more than physical entities.

With that out of the way we can then focus on just what is the nature of this non-physical part of our being. (And how could it have come to be there?)