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As an abstract noun referring to no physical entity, ''''mind'''' refers, in human beings, to a set of structures and activities in the brain in its dynamic connectivity with the body and the external environment, through stimuli from and to receptors and effectors, that enable the activities of thinking and conscious, non-conscious, and self-conscious experience.


As a verb, 'mind' refers to activities and behaviors whose meanings are captured in such phrases as "minding the baby", "mind your manners", "mind your own business" &mdash; activities and behaviors that reflect "...activities in the brain in its dynamic connectivity with the body and the external environment, through stimuli from and to receptors and effectors, that enable the activities of thinking and conscious, non-conscious, and self-conscious experience."
The word ''''mind'''', as an abstract noun, refers to no observable physical entity, but to a faculty of human beings that enables them to think, broadly defined, and to experience events of reality non-consciously, consciously, and self-consciously.
 
In verbal forms, 'mind' refers to human behaviors characterized by such phrases as "mind your own business", "minded the babysitter", "mind your manners", "he doesn't mind taking out the garbage" &mdash; typically referring to observable behaviors in contrast to the unobservable entity of the nominalized form, mind.


Thus, though 'mind' today is used both as noun and verb, before the sixteenth century, people had souls, not minds, and 'mind' was used as a verb, 'minding', 'to mind' (Szasz 1996).
Thus, though 'mind' today is used both as noun and verb, before the sixteenth century, people had souls, not minds, and 'mind' was used as a verb, 'minding', 'to mind' (Szasz 1996).

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The word 'mind', as an abstract noun, refers to no observable physical entity, but to a faculty of human beings that enables them to think, broadly defined, and to experience events of reality non-consciously, consciously, and self-consciously.

In verbal forms, 'mind' refers to human behaviors characterized by such phrases as "mind your own business", "minded the babysitter", "mind your manners", "he doesn't mind taking out the garbage" — typically referring to observable behaviors in contrast to the unobservable entity of the nominalized form, mind.

Thus, though 'mind' today is used both as noun and verb, before the sixteenth century, people had souls, not minds, and 'mind' was used as a verb, 'minding', 'to mind' (Szasz 1996).

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