This is a misplaced concreteness (i.e. reification) fallacy. "The mind" is only a concept. We use our minds in order to attain some understanding of the 'concept of mind' (which can be elaborated from a conjecture (from experimental observation of others AND their reports of the subjectivity of cognition) into an explanatory model, that, if it survives falsifying tests, is then accepted as a scientific (rather than merely intuitive) 'theory of mind'). The argument fails on this account alone.... we employ the same mind as the subject of cognition as well. (The MIND tries to understand how the mind works). — Dmitri
Argument: If we try to understand how the human mind works, it means that we have the mind as the object of cognition. However, we employ the same mind as the subject of cognition as well. (The MIND tries to understand how the mind works). Besides, we use the mind as the instrument of cognition while cognizing how the mind works. (No other instrument is available to us to perform this task.)
Conclusion: These dialectical conditions make it impossible for us to understand how the human mind works. — Dmitri
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