It is in this sort of way that Feyerabend wanted to "identify" the mind with the brain: he simply rejected the ordinary mentalistic conceptual scheme and so felt no obligation to show its compatibility with materialism.
And given that his general philosophy of mind identifies the mind with force, his identification of the principle in question with force also imports an implication that it is a mind (he does not yet quite say this in God. Some Conversations, but a few years later in On the Spirit of Christianity (1798) he explicitly describes God as a Geist, a mind).
Descartes was the first to clearly identify the mind with consciousness and self-awareness, and to distinguish this from the brain, which was the seat of intelligence.
And since there are no criteria to identify the mind, it is senseless to say that the mind has causal powers and can, therefore, interfere with physical processes.
We do not know how to identify the mind as an immaterial substance, how to measure this substance, etc. 'The power of positive thinking has never been measured in calories per second, nor a burden of grief in grams' (Williams 1985, p. 22).
For instance, human subjectivity and agency are identified with the mind but since women are usually identified with their bodies, they are devalued as human subjects and agents.
The 11-year-old, who cannot be identified, has the mind of a six-year-old with no prospect of improvement and needs constant attention.
It was off the field, however, that Heleno forged an identity less identified with the mind and more with another part of his body.
For the sake of partisan controversy and ratings, the news media seek photogenic people who are then introduced as "China experts" and become identified in the mind of the public as shedding clear light on a murky subject.
In order to identify the current mind sets and concepts as well as their impacts on how to direct the service ecosystem development in the long run, the results of layer 4 were largely mirrored against the results of the previous layers.
