Ask Mark 5.10 - The mind as a 'real thing'

Ask Mark 5.10 - The mind as a 'real thing' Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf . If you'd like to comment on any of this video, please e-mail [email protected]. For more information and queries, visit our Facebook page here: http://bit.ly/2cP4glc . CC-BY-NC University of Cape Town. Visit creativecommons.org for more information on this licence. Question: I've struggled from the start with statements that appear to place the mind in the category of nouns that correlate with real 'things', as opposed to the category of nouns associated with human (abstract) constructs. In this latter category I place nouns such as 'symphony', 'economy' and 'soul'! If 'mind' is positioned in the abstract construct category of nouns, it makes no more sense to speak of a mind projecting intentionality into its outside world as it does to speak of an economy, a symphony or a soul projecting intentionality into its external world. Please clarify in which category of noun are you placing 'mind'.