mind

combination of cognitive faculties that provides consciousness, thinking, reasoning, perception, and judgement in humans and potentially other life forms
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mind
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Summary

mind is a psychology concept[1]. mind ranks in the top 2% of psychology concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,267 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of property[3]
  • Subclass of: semi-abstract entity[4]
  • Commons category: Mind[5]
  • Said to be the same as: Q13196817[6], consciousness[7]
  • Opposite of: instinct[8], stupidity[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mind[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13], New International Encyclopedia[14], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[15]
  • Has characteristic: mental property[16], mental health[17], mental state[18]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#mind[19]
  • Different from: العقل (الحيمة الداخلية)[20]
  • Studied by: cognitive neuroscience[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[22], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Psychology[24], Wikiproject Philosophy of mind[25], WikiProject Metaphysics[26], WikiProject Philosophy[27], WikiProject Neuroscience[28], WikiProject Cognitive science[29]
  • P14541: 1rF9zB[30]

Why It Matters

mind has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] mind is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . YAMATO. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . YAMATO. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Infovarius · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Punjabipedia id → ਮਨ (mind)
    Jstor topic id (archived) → mind
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'awa', 'az', 'azb', '
    Sitelink count → 180
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Opposite of: stupidity, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  2. 20d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#mind
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#mind"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1rF9zB
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Cambridge encyclopedia of anthropology id → mind
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Cambridge encyclopedia of anthropology id: mind, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143368262|Mind (#143368262)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/2746|Cambrid"
  5. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002183-mysl
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002183-mysl, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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