MIND "MIND. This term, and what it connotes is the battered offspring of the union of philosophy and psychology. At some deep level we dearly love and cheerish it and see behind its surface great potential but, beause of our own inadequacies we continuously abuse it , harshly and abruptly pummelling it for imagined excesses , and even lock it away in some dark closet where we cannot hear its insistent whines. The history of the use of the term reveals two conflicting impulses: the tendency to treat mind as a metaphysical explanatory entity seperate and apart from mechanistic systemsand the tendency to use it as a biological metaphor representing the still not understood neurophysiological proceses of the brain..". They go on to give eight explanations..." 1. the totality of hypothesised mental processes...... 2.the totality of the conscious and unconscious mental experiences of an individual organism... 3. mind as a collection of processes 4. mind as equivalent to brain...Its major liability is that despite recent gains we know precious little about brain function. It is more an article of faith than a true position. 5.mind as an emergent property 6. mind as a list of synonyms e.g. psyche, soul, self. 7. Mind as intelligence (colloquial) 8. mind as a characteristic or trait e.g the mind of an artist."   Online Contact Name: Email: Email Support Confidential: You may write to us about any of your emotional, interpersonal and health related problems. The experienced counsellors of Mind Power Lab would respond to your queries Click Here ...