ABSTRACT
What exactly is a mind? The question is one philosophers and non-philosophers have struggled with throughout recorded history.According to some, minds are spiritual entities that temporarily reside in bodies, entering at conception or birth and departing on death. Indeed, death is simply the departure of a body’s spirit. Others imagine the relation between minds and bodies to be more intimate. Minds, they hold, are not entities. Minds resemble fists or laps: a mind is present when a body is organized in a particular way, and absent otherwise. Still others hold that minds are indeed entities, physical entities: minds are just brains.
