Axagoras' Mind Is an Ingredient

Anaxagoras says there was nothing but mind and another infinite substance in which all other things were mixed to. These seeds were the beginnings of later distinctive substances like, for example, air or water. Only mind stands outside this mixture - it must be over and above the things it is going to control. In fact, as he puts it in his most famous slogan, everything is in everything. The oceans may look to us like they are made only of water, but actually they also contain things other than water, for instance, air and fire.