The words mind and mental are commonly used as a label for subjective experiences of any kind. Mind is an emergent property of the chaotic, subjective community of brain structures. It is likely that our transcendent mind is something more than the current sum of all our associative memories. These normal uncertainties are amplified by random variations caused by our chancy genetic inheritance, our painful, anxious memories, our variable chemical and cultural states, and our chaotic mental associations with their random filters and censors. Various neural structures of the brain thus inform each other of their mutual activities.
Reductionism insists that the mind is nothing at all.
However, I think the concept of mind somehow explains what we are worth, how we relate to each other, and to our gods. Most of these troubles are concerned with that illusive quality we call meaning . But there is a great mystery here. Some people can find implied, indirect, symbolic answers to such puzzles in their dreams, as Rystak notes.