The notions of truth and of freedom may not be identical but are intimately related. Truth as correspondence demands as an ideal that the system of understanding have as many degrees of freedom as its object. Mind is the name for that subsystem of life that can contain a high degree of freedom in a coherent fashion; freedom that can be deployed as required to model, and thus formulate responses to, challenges of unknown form, innovations in experience, in being. Individual objects, physical objects including the body, have comparatively few degrees of freedom but they exist in a space that has an immense number. The mind as object to itself is less free than the mind as subject; the "I" is far less free than the unknown subject. In fact the mind is daunted by reality, it has less freedom, it fails to respond truly to what it meets, but its truth is not in correspondence but in the ability to acknowledge its own limitations and develop a response in spite of them. The degrees of freedom are not numerical, since some space is reserved for knowing you don't know. As if the degrees of freedom extend into unknown dimensions. Meeting what you don't know how to respond to does not mark a limit but a point at which the mind turns on itself, seeing its limitations allows it to open a new dimension which grows from reflexivity (the sense of an "I') to objectivity (the dissolution of that "I'), you stretch the scope of your knowledge further out, you become more true to the reality in which you find yourself. Mind imposes no limitation on this process and this constitutes its freedom. Whether this is metaphysical or not is beside he point, it is enacted freedom. This is also the process of evolution. It doesn't matter what forms of causality are accepted in theorising this process, only that it can never stop uncovering its own limitations. The mind, which cannot see itself, recognises itself in this process wherever it is encountered.