Among these things there is one of peculiar interest, and which we have not placed upon a par with the rest, our own body, which sees, tastes, touches, other things.

We cannot remember a time when we did not know that with this body are somehow bound up many experiences which interest us acutely; for example, experiences of pleasure and pain.

Moreover, we seem always to have known that certain of the bodies which surround our own rather resemble our own, and are in important particulars to be distinguished from the general mass of bodies.
Thus, we seem always to have been living in a world of _things_ and to have recognized in that world the existence of ourselves and of other people.

When we now think of "ourselves" and of "other people," we think of each of the objects referred to as possessing a _mind_.

May we say that, as far back as we can remember, we have thought of ourselves and of other persons as possessing minds?
Hardly.