Mind is the integrated organization of evaluative cognitive processes through which an agent maintains a coherent relationship with itself and its world.
In APS, mind is not identical with consciousness, intelligence, or human thought. Rather, it refers to the increasingly integrated organization of significance within a living system. Through evaluative and cognitive processes, organisms distinguish what matters, coordinate responses, retain information, anticipate future conditions, and maintain coherent engagement with their environments.
Mind builds upon biological evaluation and cognition. Evaluation establishes significance, cognition organizes significance, and mind integrates significance into a unified relationship between agent and world.
Mind therefore represents a biological achievement rather than a separate substance or non-biological addition to living systems. Conscious awareness may be one expression of mind, but mind is not reducible to consciousness.
APS Summary: Mind is the integrated organization of evaluative cognition through which an agent maintains a coherent relationship with itself and its world.