What is the "mind?"

Essentially it's this sentient interface our bodies, as mobile organisms, have with their situation, in order to interact with it. We are no more cognizant of much of our body's functioning, as we are of the world around us. It just bubbles up, like flashes of light come in and the mind has to relate them.

One evident bias this creates, is this interface functions in a sequence. Largely because as mobile organisms, we have to navigate, unlike flora.

So our experience of this process called time, is as the present moving past to future. Though the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change is turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

Culture tries to synchronize people into a larger social organism, based on the same languages, rules and measures, so we assume there is some universal, Newtonian flow of time, but everyone doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer. Rabbits and turtles.

So the energy, this presence, goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback between them.

So while you presumably can't explicitly see someone else's consciousness, have you ever felt some magnetic connection, or attraction? Or the opposite, being turned off by someone? That is the push and pull of the energy.

Personally I remember as a child, laying on the porch, watching this ant, when it stopped, like it sensed something. Then there was this tiny cone of awareness, waving around with its antennae.

Over the years, this tendency to sense where others are concentrating has evolved and grown more nuanced. It's not something I actively practice, as I like my own space and so I've become that much more aware of others spaces and the ways they interact in this combined space. Driving is one situation where it is constantly obvious, because people are always concentrating on the space in front of them.

Some years ago, I came across the term, "floaters" and realized others were seeing them, but mostly assuming they are just visual effects, because they will stick to various layers of our perception and move with our eyesight, but then those layers will connect with other floaters and there is this sense they are some other consciousness. Much like I don't always have that much control over the little voice/voices in the back of my head and have to find ways to distract them, so I can concentrate on what I have to.

I don't know if you will take any of this seriously, but consider that after a few billion, if not just hundreds of millions of years of evolution, biology would have developed its own forms of wireless connectivity and it has just become obscured by our cultural imperatives.

We are nodes in the network, organisms in the ecosystem and the line between isn't as clear as our reductionist, materialist culture insists it must be.