Most of these proposals are about how to naturalistically explain the mind-relation, i.e., what kind of natural relation could support the intentional relation between the mental representations and what they represent.
Brian McGuinness, a vice president of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, explained the mind-set of some travelers: "Part of being on the road means the ability to live a little more luxuriously than at home, and that means not having to turn off the lights and the TV".
"I think a firm, strong, authoritarian hand cannot create unity," she says in the film, explaining the mind-set of the military rulers up to the election of the new, apparently reform-minded president, U Thein Sein.
"I'm not sure the average Mets fan is any more unhappy today than the average Yankee fan, if you think of it in terms of 'O.K., where are we going?' " Alderson said, before explaining the mind-set of the Mets fans he meets: "Well, they haven't spent any money, they didn't get Michael Bourn, they sure didn't trade for Justin Upton, but you know what, they're moving in the right direction.
When I told this story to another Afghan friend, he explained the mind-set of young Afghans perfectly.
He explained the mind-set of the men involved: "If I get used to this life style, I need to drink, to pay for girls, for rooms, for tips, for trips.
Explaining the mind-boggling abstractness of her algebraic topology research with the most colourful images, my friend has, in any case, made me firmly believe that everybody can understand mathematics — as long as they have access to a number devil.
While Lunch Line does a tremendous job explaining the mind-numbing complexities of the USDA's sorted relationship with the School Lunch Program, the good news is that we don't need to wait for a drifting barge to self-correct -- parents and principals can make dramatic improvements, right now, for free.
Some contemporary philosophers of mind then try to explain the persistence of the mind-body problem by claiming that there are two radically different modes of access to the mind and the body and, given the ineradicability of these two modes of access, we will continue to have two radically different descriptions of reality.
There's more affection here — or perhaps, more interest — in the real-life Dr. Frankensteins, their ethically dubious choices and their attempts to explain the workings of mind and soul.
