This has been suggested for Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, who impressed Socrates by identifying mind as the governing power of the universe.
According to the analytical behaviourist, there is no more of a problem for the materialist in having to identify mind with something material than there is in identifying such an abstraction as the average plumber with some concrete entity.
Here I take identifying mind and brain as being a matter of identifying processes and perhaps states of the mind and brain.
As the microarray data did not identify minD expression to be activated by FNR, the apparent differential expression of MinD protein, revealed by proteomic analysis, is more likely to be due to a growth rate effect than to a direct effect of FNR.
The paper introduces the empirical science of 'mind genomics', whose objective is to understand the dimensions of ordinary, everyday experience, identify mind-set segments of people who value different aspects of that everyday experience, and then assign a new person to a mind-set by a statistically appropriate procedure.
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).
Though I identify with mind, the mind itself is matter.
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.
He rejected what he saw to be the intellectualization of personal realization, and identified the mind with li (xin ji li or mind is pattern or principle).
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.
