"You can't function thinking that at any moment you're going to be struck by lightning or receive an anthrax letter".
"... stimulation or depression of the person's central nervous system, resulting in hallucinations or in a significant disturbance in, or significant change to, motor function, thinking, behaviour, perception, awareness or mood; or causing a state of dependence, including physical or psychological addiction".
Melancholia is frequently conceptualised as a biological disorder encompassing disturbances of mood, motor function, thinking, cognition and perception [ 1, 2].
Worrying is kind of a function of thinking too much and not being as confident.
"Many times," he writes, "I have felt myself on the brink of a pessimistic conclusion as to the function of thinking, of intelligence, in society", even to the point of wondering whether "the role of critical intelligence", which he had exercised so often and at such costs to himself, might not be "dangerous, and very nearly useless".
Wundt thus charts a middle course between, on the one hand, making logical evidence a "transcendent or transcendental" function of thinking (as Kant and "recent speculative philosophy" is alleged to do), and, on the other hand, considering it an "empirical trait of sensible objects" (as do empiricists and positivists) (L I: 83).
With his eye on history, he developed the concepts -- archetypes, New Age, collective unconscious, synchronicity, anima, the two dimensions of personality (extroverted, introverted), man's four basic functions (thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition) - that made him famous.
Individuals with current NSSI status were more likely to be female and slightly younger, to report higher NSSI lifetime frequency, more NSSI forms and functions, thinking of themselves as a "self-injurer", and current psychological distress.
But [when] functioning with thinking imagination conforms itself to things while discriminating one condition from another".
That's one problem: There's no "ghost in the machine" — the AI is functioning, not thinking.
The concept is a sexier version of a project that Gilbert and Dozier are working on together, in which they explore ways that computers can be made to adapt to human users, instead of how users must now adapt to computer functions and thinking.
