Reporters attempting to get to the bottom of what actually took place face two obvious obstacles: the sheer complexity of the mind-bending maze of charges and counter-charges and the necessary secrecy of the federal investigation.
The sense of intimacy conveyed is often startlingly raw, taking us into the writers' deepest desires and fears, and elucidating the complexities of the mind.
Ms. Tartt's theatrical, almost willful dwelling on the gothic in "The Secret History" has given way here to a deeply felt awareness of mortality and the losses that define the human condition; her controlled, cerebral approach to characters in that novel has given way to a keen appreciation of the tangled complexities of the mind and heart.
Her demands are deceptively simple: to be true to human consciousness and to honor the complexities of the mind and its memory.
Her demands are deceptively simple: to be true to human consciousness and to honour the complexities of the mind and its memory.
This can be a fun way for teachers to illustrate the complexities of the mind to children.
However, many neuroscientists have pointed out that even if you could code the astronomical number of connections between the brain's 100bn neurons, even this would not capture the full complexity of the human mind.
Second (even if we ignore the lack of quantitative measures) there are countless examples of systems which surpass the putative "complexity" of the human mind.
For all the complexity of the human mind, when it comes down to remembering what we've been up to for the last few weeks our memories are pretty pitiful – you might remember a few notable events, but your day-to-day activities barely make a dent.
The infinitist accepts the need to be able to supply non-circular justification for believing what we do, but argues that given the complexity of the human mind and its capacity to entertain and justifiably believe an infinite number of propositions, there is nothing vicious about the relevant regresses we face.
