Is the mind personal or impersonal?

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we can continue in a future session is the mind personal or impersonal? the mind is insensual it is like a software so the mind does not have consciousness the mind does not have personality but the mind is often personified personification is a literary device which is used to for rhetorical effect for impact so for example if there is a heavy storm it means the clouds roared now the clouds are not sentient the clouds are not going to roar like animals but because the clouds are so ferocious to convey how ferocious the storm was this personification that is done is a literary device used for conveying certain message so the mind is like a software and in that sense the mind is insensual but because the software has its own settings by which it prompts us to do certain things so the software in that sense although it is insentient it is not as inactive or not as passive as is the hardware the hardware does not do anything computer just sit over there only but as soon as the computer is on software is doing so many things in the background this program is running that is running and so many things are happening so like that although the mind is insentient it is not as inactive as is the hardware so it is active so to discern that or to emphasize that the mind’s activity may not always be the activity that we want to do to be able to differentiate this way the mind is often treated as a person so it is a personification