Do you really know what a mind is?

If asked if you know what a Rubik's cube is, you would

probably have no problem in answering the question.

'Sure, it's a 3-D puzzle, and the aim is to solve it

by making all sides a single colour.'

Easy, right?

But what if I asked you 'what is a mind'?

Mind, in difference to a Rubik's cube is not a

thing, something tangible that we can touch or see.

But if I was to hazard a guess, most of us probably think of

it as 'real'.

However, ponder this: we treat 'mind' as something real,

something tangible, although there seem to be little scientific

evidence to substantiate that it is anything more than a word 

for a human construct.

(Human constructs exists in the human brain but are not

directly observable.)

Human constructs such as:

Thought, consciousness, love, time, space, soul,

being, emotions, imagination, perception, reality,

truth, soul, dreams, etc.etc.etc.

What if one was to ascribe some of these constructs/words

as being represented by different colours on a Rubik's cube?

Apparently there are 42 Quintilion different possibilities on

 a Rubik's cube with only six different colours. 

How many possibilities would there be on a Rubik's cube

with for example six different human constructs represented

by each colour? Eek....mind boggling.

Imagine one twist of the cube representing a thought, an emotion,

an experience, a dream, a perception, a feeling, etc.etc.etc.

That would mean that with each twist a new/different 'mind landscape'

(mindscape?) would be created.

The thing with constructs is that they can become so familiar and

ingrained in common use that we begin to assume their manifest

existence. Time for example....it's a construct although we experience

it as 'real'/tangible.

Sure we can look at a clock and tell what time it says on it,

but we can't observe time in itself.

Just like a painting of a Rubik's cube is not a Rubik's cube,

but mere a 2D(dimension) representation of it.

Wikipedia says: 'The mind is a set of thinking facilities

including cognitive aspects such as consciousness, imagination,

perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory as

well as non-cognitive aspects such as emotions. Under the

scientific physicalist interpretation the mind is housed at

least in part in the brain.'

(All the underlined words are human constructs aka not

directly observable.)

Mind is a word often used by most of us and my

guess is that most of the time we assume that

others have the same understanding of the word as we do.

I mean, if someone says to you that they have 'lost their

mind', you are probably not going to ask that person

'do you want me to help you find it again?'

Or if someone tells you: 'I've changed my mind' you are probably 

not going to respond with 'what did you get in exchange?'

Since it is not possible to actually directly observe a mind,

we have to make do with ambiguous language and our

own interpretations. 

So my interpretation is that the mind is like a Rubik's cube.

It has Quintilion possibilities for us to entertain,

to make sense from, and to assist us on

our journey that we call Living a Life.

''Biology gives you a brain.

Life turns it into a mind.''

(Jeffery Eugenides)