mind

n. 1. A general term for mental, as opposed to physical, processes and contents. 2. Consciousness considered as an entity independent of physical conditions sometimes believed to exist before the birth of and to continue after the death of the body. 3. A particular kind of mentality, as in the mind of an assassin or the mind of a genius. 4. An explanatory entity used to account for the accomplishment of tasks not accounted for otherwise. 5. The sum of the operations of a brain. 6. An emergent property of increasing brain complexity. 7. The capacity to accomplish difficult tasks as in "She has a mind for mathematics." 8. v. To attend to.