What is Mind?

Mind, as defined earlier, is one way of referring to the active production and display of images arising from actual perception or from memory recall or from both. The images that constitute a mind flow in a never-ending cortege and, as they do so, describe all sorts of actors and objects, all sorts of actions and relationships, all sorts of qualit

The “mind,” as I mean it in this book, consists of the experiences and information that are represented by a nervous system.

Mind is the intelligence that knows how to create every living system and how to operate those systems.

Consequently, from a neuroscientific understanding, mind is the brain in action.

More than 20 years ago, two philosophers, Andy Clark and David Chalmers, wrote a journal article that opened with a question: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Now, that question would seem to have an obvious answer, right? The mind stops at the head. It’s contained within the skull. But Clark and Chalmers maintained that

Science finds it hard to decipher the mysteries of the mind largely because we lack efficient tools. Many people, including many scientists, tend to confuse the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things. The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses, and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as

As the interpersonal neurobiologist Dan Siegel summarizes it, the mind uses the brain to make the mind.