Instead, the book discusses mind-altering drugs at some length, without looking much to the future (nods to Aldous Huxley's "soma" aside) of what such drugs might be able to do.
Though Astell discusses minds as if they are sometimes isolated from bodies, she maintains that human beings are mind body unions.
In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.
The Scot, who turned 71 on 31 December, also discusses retirement, mind games with managerial rival Jose Mourinho and some of the many myths that have grown around him over the years.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Jung who wrote about the concepts of 'introverted' and 'extroverted', and the significance of the collective history of Mankind.
In a podcast at Philosophy Bites, Tim Crane discusses animal minds; at Philosophy Now, Namit Arora looks at machine minds.
He discusses the mind-games played with professional caliber black athletes, who compete, sacrifice and discipline themselves to reach the highest level of ability, only to discover what it means to be owned by people like Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones.
He was initially told he had been disqualified from the hurdles (thus scoring no points), and so, in the discus, "my mind just wasn't there," he said.
Pychyl discusses the idea of the "monkey mind" — that our thoughts are constantly darting all over the place, preventing us from concentrating.
After a few months, she came across an article which perfectly encapsulated her feelings: written by Keith Telfeyan for I Heart Berlin, "Arriving at the Berlin State of Mind" discusses the city's particular sense of liberation.
Like the X-ray technology he discusses, I believe our minds have an enormous capacity to connect the invisible dots to guide us to strive for the impossible.
