Metaphysically, realism is committed to the mind-independent existence of the world investigated by the sciences.
He was too committed to the idea of the extended mind to the prospect of brain-machine combinations, to the glorious cyborg future to give it up.
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society CNSS) is committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational and neuroscientific bases of cognition.
In its most radical form, proposed by Descartes and consequently called Cartesianism, dualism is committed to the view that mind constitutes a fundamentally different substance, one whose functioning cannot be entirely explained by reference to physical phenomena alone.
Whilst historians are committed to the view that "mind exists", natural scientists are similarly committed to the view that "matter exists".
Historians are thus committed to the view that "mind exists" in the very specific sense that reality, when viewed from an historical perspective, comprises actions and is to be explained rationally rather than causally.
She strongly believes a college committed to the expansion of the mind cannot be closed.
Another way of formulating the criticism is to say that computational theories seem committed to the existence in the mind of "homunculi," or "little men," to carry out the processes they postulate.
First, Korsgaard's characterization takes realism to be committed to the claim (e) about mind-independence.
The show is one of the very few on television (Fox's "House" is the only other that comes to mind) committed to the portrayal of elite intelligence at work.
The book was highly praised by critics; Irving Howe said Fox's prose was, "sentence by lapidary sentence... the realisation of a mind committed to the hardness of its own truth" and placed her in the tradition of American short novels "exemplified by Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts and Seize the Day ".
