<P> The generalization of mind to include all mental faculties, thought, volition, feeling and memory, gradually develops over the 14th and 15th centuries . </P> <P> The attributes that make up the mind is debated . Some psychologists argue that only the "higher" intellectual functions constitute mind, particularly reason and memory . In this view the emotions--love, hate, fear, and joy--are more primitive or subjective in nature and should be seen as different from the mind as such . Others argue that various rational and emotional states cannot be so separated, that they are of the same nature and origin, and should therefore be considered all part of it as mind . </P> <P> In popular usage, mind is frequently synonymous with thought: the private conversation with ourselves that we carry on "inside our heads ." Thus we "make up our minds," "change our minds" or are "of two minds" about something . One of the key attributes of the mind in this sense is that it is a private sphere to which no one but the owner has access . No one else can "know our mind ." They can only interpret what we consciously or unconsciously communicate . </P> <P> Broadly speaking, mental faculties are the various functions of the mind, or things the mind can "do". </P>

What part of the brain is the mind