But as William James pointed out, mind is a process, not a stuff. Modern scientific study indicates that extraordinary processes can arise from matter; indeed matter itself may be regarded as arising from processes of energy exchange. In modern science, matter has been reconceived in terms of processes; mind has not been reconceived as a special form of matter. That mind is a special kind of process depending on special arrangements of matter is the fundamental position I will take in this book.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the 'mind' of cognitive science is a reification of the domain of sensing (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 595): mental processes that unfold through sensers and range over, or are caused by, phenomena that are construals of experience as meaning.
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