ABSTRACT
Behaviourism has broken down the artificial isolation of a mind from its body and its environment. But it is still true that psychological theory hovers uneasily between physiology on the one side and 'philosophy of mind' on the other. Some of the American Neo-realists propound a 'relational theory of consciousness' in order to fill the mind with real things and save real things from being engulfed by the subjectivity of ideas. The problem of the theory of mind, like the problem of the theory of any other phenomenon in the world, is concerned with data and their interpretation with learning to recognise the data and interpret them rightly. If the presence of mind in a human body is not differentially evident, the game is up. The hypothesis that there is a mind must be capable of verification by a recognisable difference between facts which corroborate it and facts which refute it.
