Research shows that remembering is actually an active process, in which the memory is mentally constructed.
At one point, he discusses whether our perception of reality is a mentally constructed illusion (don't ask me why).
Nor would anyone worry again that the unruly excursions of comets through the solar system would smash the crystalline spheres that earlier thinkers had mentally constructed to carry planets and the other celestial bodies through the heavens.
Mr. Alto said that he had never done a project like this but, like the real estate broker, Jeff Garibaldi of the Garibaldi Group, he drove by the empty silk mill at 506-508 Morris Avenue every day and mentally constructed what it could be.
Thinking about the future eludes probability and must be based on the concept of multiple, alternative but hypothetical futures, which can only be mentally constructed [68, 69, 70].
Sautrāntika holds the view known as nominalism or conceptualism the view that denies universals any independent extramental objective reality existing on their own apart from being mentally constructed.
The onus is put back on the realists to show that universals, which serve as meanings of words, are real properties of objects rather than imagined or mentally constructed features.
Patañjali suggests that one can pull together impressions of all the uttered sounds and then think of a sequence in this mentally constructed image of a word (Mahābhaṣya, I, p. 356).
