Sentence examples for imagining the mind from inspiring English sources

Still, Mr. Blessing is drawing on a dramatist's license here in imagining the mind of a man telling his own story.

Bassam recoils from the hedonistic pursuits of the West, yet finds himself drawn to them; losing his virginity to a prostitute, he wonders, "How many years will she be given by the Creator before she will burn?" Imagining the mind of a terrorist, Dubus runs into a familiar problem: Bassam's thoughts are a case study in the banality of evil.

"I imagine the mind as a big house.

Since I can imagine the mind without the body, it follows that they're separate.

I reject the conjecture: "mind is based on matter". To use simile: imagine the mind IS like a computer.

If the mind is just a way of talking about the body, how could I imagine the mind without the body?

I will be arriving with all my baggage, real and imagined: the mind that analyzes, judges, discriminates; that creates the distance in "critical distance".

But maybe we can also imagine the mind of God – that is to say, the infinite totality of thinking – as like the sea, and the thoughts of finite beings as like waves that arise and then pass away.

It's going to be fascinating to imagine the mind in the virtual environment.

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.

Imagine the mind that would seek to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon, with attendant negative effects on the environment and people.