mind-brainadj.n.

1899 Mind 8 138 He envisaged mental evolution as a progressive series of mutual (brain-mind and mind-brain) interdependencies.

1908 R. W. Sellars in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 5 238 The death of mechanism makes possible a solution of the mind-brain problem.

1960 E. Sprague in S. Hook Dimensions of Mind v. 68 The mind-brain problem is a puzzler, because we are uncertain of the point of view from which it is to be regarded.

1969 Jrnl. Philos. 66 813 The defense of the mind-brain identity thesis is hereby divided into two stages.

1991 R. Latto in H. Robinson & R. Tallis Pursuit of Mind iii. 65 Brain-mind identity is more than a belief, it is a hypothesis which seems to be the simplest explanation of the mind-brain problem, if it is a problem, and therefore one which parsimony requires us to accept.

1918 R. W. Sellars in Philos. Rev. 27 162 But I do believe that the mind-brain which is the setting, source and condition of consciousness is a reality, complex beyond imagination.

1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place 439 The only complete mental substance will be not merely mental but also material; it will be the ‘mind-brain’, if I may use that expression.

1954 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 15 49 Such an organism possesses a ‘mind-brain’, a term which Professor Sellars uses because it stresses the co-presence of certain mental and neural functions taking place in the cortex.

1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) viii. 97 As the new view of the mind-brain coalesced, the blizzard of confusing evidence about mental illness began to make sense.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 64/1 I think this is very doubtful, especially if Gardner and Gopnik are right about the mind-brain.