Whatever its nature, it is generally agreed that mind is that which enables a being to have

subjective awareness and intentionality towards their environment, to perceive and respond to
stimuli with some kind of agency, and to have consciousness, including thinking and feeling.
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The concept of mind is understood in many different ways by many different cultural and
religious traditions. Some see mind as a property exclusive to humans whereas others ascribe
properties of mind to non-living entities (e.g. panpsychism and animism), to animals and to
deities. Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind (sometimes described as identical
with soul or spirit) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural
order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient
Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.