For centuries the mind was pictured as a thing - a soul, a ghost in the machine, something separate from the body. Minsky, a founder of artificial intelligence, proposed a simpler view: mind is not a substance but an activity. Just as running is what legs do, minding is what brains do. In The Society of Mind he described intelligence as emerging from countless small, mindless processes - “agents” - working together. No single agent understands anything, yet together they produce thought, memory and feeling. The idea challenges dualism and raises a provocative question: if minds are processes, could other kinds of machinery one day run them too?