What is a Mind?

The concept of ''having a mind'' is one of the key concepts that we use to carve a division of extreme significance into the universe. We say that parts of the universe ''have a mind'' and that parts of the universe do not ''have a mind''. But what exactly is a mind? In this book John King claims that to have a mind is to think; this may seem obvious. But on route to this conclusion he discards a multitude of views concerning the mental - that ''having a mind'' is to do with freedom, or awareness, or intentionality, or perception, or feeling states, or the inner cause of certain movements, or a ''central core'' of these attributes. This analysis is sure to help the reader clarify their own beliefs about what a mind is.