Is the mind physical or mental?

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Physicalism is a philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things. Knowledge or concepts, however, are mental constructs not physical ones, so it follows that physicalism leaves something out.