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> That way lies pantheism. (A position I am not totally adverse too,
> since it would go a long way to solving the mind-body problem!)
Panpsychism.
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> As an aside, your thought processes do involve lots of things that
> are not part of you (like air and light). Does that make the air and
> light part of your mind? If "mind" is the sum total of events that
> determine my thinking, almost everything is part of my mind.
It's a commonplace of phil. mind that "minds aren't brains" (even if
they're causally reducible to them.) Appropriately extend "brain" and
you have a decent answer, I think.
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