“The answer to this question, in my opinion, depends on which mind one is talking about. Many people contend that our mind is simply a construct of our brain and thus resides within the brain. However, in my CSD (Conscious Subconscious Dynamics) system, our two minds reside in different areas. My contention is that our conscious mind is a product of our brain and does reside within the activity of our neurons by way of electrical and chemical reactions. Yet, I believe our subconscious mind resides within the entire body with a heightened focus pertaining to the brain, heart, gut, and genital areas….”
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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?

In consciousness. What does that tell you? I can’t say what consciousness is other than it is what you are. The body could be said to be in the mind. Consciousness is the only ‘thing’ that is not inside something else, but everything is within it, is it. Different aspects of consciousness have different functions. The mind has a particular function that has to do with physical reality. The idea is that you generate, with your non-physical consciousness, electrical energy fields. That concept, acting through the symbol of the physical brain, generates a reflection – a symbolic reflection – of your consciousness in physical terms. And you call it mind, or mentality….”
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“In all questions of importance, I consult Kim Deal. She was in the Pixies, Throwing Muses, the Breeders, and she helped get Tanya Donnelly started with another of my favorite bands, Belly. You might know the lyrics:
Where is my mind? Where is my mind?
Way out in the water, she is swimmin…”
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