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Where is your mind?

Ryle: That’s a category mistake.
Churchland: ‘Mind’ is just a folk concept; you don’t really have one of those.
Smart: In your skull.
Hume: Whose mind?
Searle: Well it’s not in the Chinese Room.
Clark: All over the place and especially in your iPhone.
Descartes: It’s not located in space, but it’s also very near to your pineal gland.
Chalmers: In every possible world where you aren’t a zombie.
Dennett: In the eye of the beholder but not just in the eye of the beholder.
Spinoza: Everywhere God is.
Penrose & Hameroff: In your microtubules.
McGinn: We’ll never know!
Turing: Represented here, on this strip of tape.
Berkeley: As opposed to what?