> You can't gather empirical data about 'the mind' because it is a category you made up to describe a set of symptoms but which you are confusing for an entity.

> You can't gather empirical data about 'the mind' because it is a category you made up to describe a set of symptoms but which you are confusing for an entity. No, I'm not doing that, psychologists are. And psychologists insist that the mind is a suitable topic for scientific investigation. You've managed to confuse me with a group that I spend much of my time criticizing for their scientific pretensions.