What an extraordinary Swiss-army knife of a operation the mind is?! It can have perceptions, conceptions, imaginations, memories - all of which are entirely distinct modalities, but which affect each other - it can communicate with other minds, solve problems, theorise, introspect and extrospect, have aesthetic 'experiences' and make fine judgments on them, it can be infused with desire, or a vast spectrum of emotions, it can dream, manufacture and inhabit its own worlds, it can deceive itself mightily, and it can also sift through the relations among experiences and come up with a grain of truth. It can have ideals and ultimates and relate itself to them in various ways. Its capacities seem to be limitless, and even when they are not it can sense its limitations and search out ways to go beyond them. No wonder that times you seem to be entirely lost within it. And yet in all of this, and even in the naming of its endowments, there seems to be a distinction between you and your mind. Is that one more of the mind's tricks? Is the experiencing, the pure presencing something else the mind does or produces as a matter of course? If so, then what is it for, what is the motive for all of this play? And if not, then what are you and why are you hiding there?