"We have to change the fundamental mind-set about doping," Dr. Don Catlin, who operates the Olympic drug-testing lab at U.C.L.A., said.
Since I share Miller's general "ignore the crowd, stick to the fundamentals" mind-set, I decided to see if my guru-based models are finding value in the same areas he mentioned.
James's fundamental idea is that mind and matter are both aspects of, or structures formed from, a more fundamental stuff — pure experience — that (despite being called "experience") is neither mental nor physical.
This means that there is no mental aspect to heaps of sand as such, even though at the most fundamental level mind pervades the universe.
If adopting thesis (d), we say 'yes' — that such intentionality can come only with consciousness — we will probably have gone as far in making consciousness fundamental to mind as one reasonably can.
Unsurprisingly, each of the key terms, "mind", "fundamental" and "throughout the universe" is subject to a variety of interpretations by panpsychists, leading to a range of possible philosophical positions.
And the pull part is that the observation sets the stage for a new neurobiological approach to this fundamental facet of mind, of brain".
Underpinning all this is a deep, instinctive sincerity which is, to my mind, fundamental to greatness.
But Obama's first book is valuable in the way that it reveals his fundamental attitudes of mind and spirit.
So a detailed understanding of one type of realizing physical system (e.g., brains) will not shed light on the fundamental nature of mind.
