Sentence examples for mental intention from inspiring English sources

The project is motivated by numerous experiments that suggest that the behavior of random systems can be altered by directed mental intention, and related experiments showing subtle changes associated with group coherence.

Such drawings are invaluable — not only because they give, in its purity, the mental intention of the artist; but also because they bring immediately before us the mood of his mind at the moment of creation".

Hence, the universal as the ultimate basis of predication is not the species as mental intention.

In the present picture, this is conceived in such a way that "mental intention (volition) becomes neurally effective by momentarily increasing the probability of exocytosis" (Beck and Eccles 1992, 11360).

This approach enhances both our physical ability and our mental intention.

Ki is most often understood as unified physical and mental intention, however in traditional martial arts it is often discussed as "life energy".

The decoded commands allowed volunteer subjects to control an external device in real-time through their mental intentions.

Finally, there is the idea suggested by Beck and Eccles in the 1990s, according to which quantum mechanical processes, relevant for the description of exocytosis at the synaptic cleft, can be influenced by mental intentions.

But according to orthodox quantum mechanics, our mental intentions play an essential role in the determination of brain behavior.

We'll then consider Searle's broadly Fregean account; it explains linguistic meaning in terms of the mental states (intentions, beliefs, desires) that underlie speech acts.

It differs from stimuli of ToM tests where complex interpretation of the mental state (intentions, wishes, desires) of others is required.