To him it's about consciousness – and quickly he gets away on a tangent about the limits of the mind, flitting through Freud, Alan Turing, Paracelsus and Twelfth Night before arriving at an explanation that makes reasonable sense.
In its uncounted hours of conversation, "Please, Mr. Einstein" touches down lightly and charmingly on some of the thorniest philosophical consequences of Einstein's genius and, by extension, the scientific preoccupations of the 20th century — the nature of reality, the fate of causality, the comprehensibility of nature, the limits of the mind — while scrolling through Einstein's life.
They both rely on testing the limits of the mind, body, and audience.
Instead, she writes, in a critical, yet self-aware tone, about an unidentified exercise class in which the instructor exhorts her to go beyond the arbitrary limits of her mind, and then later in the same article she mentions going to a spinning class.
When we want things to change but we're waiting for a better time to make those changes, we're caught in a limiting frame of mind.
There was no racial hostility at work, just the limits of human minds and the categories they create.
In "Graceling," Katsa must take responsibility for the deadly Grace that gives her superhuman fighting ability; in "Fire," a young woman named Fire, the only monster in the Dells who is also human, must determine the appropriate limits of her mind-numbing influence over others.
The master is an encounter of limits, the limits of our minds.
We are correct only in describing the limits of our minds.
These events push us past the limits of our minds, and when given the choice of confusion or dismissal, we mostly opt for the latter.
