In a way, though, her believability in these songs – how vividly she inserts herself into that imagined mind-space – is the small triumph of "1989".
Clark found it liberating to imagine minds freed from their ordinary, meaty bodies, but GOFAI felt a bit too intellectual, a bit too high up.
And yet, though I had been instructed by my reading that we imagine minds as much as know them, I also realized, look- ing at the little girl who had cried herself to sleep, that the difference didn't quite matter.
I will be arriving with all my baggage, real and imagined: the mind that analyzes, judges, discriminates; that creates the distance in "critical distance".
It was that direct hit of the imagining mind that distinguished true art, registering the flux of life, its contingent, temporal quality, the buddings and sheddings that gave human existence its majestic poignancy.
In his writing, he could sometimes discipline himself into achieving those moments, as when he imagined the mind-set of a policeman in "Armies of the Night," but onscreen he needed to get hit.
"I imagine the mind as a big house.
Still, Mr. Blessing is drawing on a dramatist's license here in imagining the mind of a man telling his own story.
In one of Leibniz's best-known metaphors, he asks his readers to imagine the mind and body as two pendula hanging from a beam.
For instance, imagine your mind is like a beautiful garden.
