Seeing red

[bennyboy]

All definitions of all terms are, essentially, arbitrary.  

Definitions are arbitrary, but reality, for which we make labels, isn't.

You can define a cat however you want, but that meowing furry thing is going to need a name. Similarly, when I wake up and the lights come on in my mind, that's "mind." You can call an AI system a mind if you want, but then we'll need a new word for the thing I'm talking about-- unless we have sufficient reason to believe they are the same, which IMO we don't.

So is mind a real thing, such that a thing either has one or doesn't, or is it just a word of convenience to talk about things which you seem to interact with their environments in certain ways? If the latter's the case, then there's little interesting conversation to be had, I'd guess.