I find Remnick's descriptions of today's Russia to be valuable, but they bring to mind elements of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's prewar Germany.
Her fellow guests teetering along bark-covered paths past weird artworks in their stilettos also called to mind elements of old flicks, specifically those featuring intergalactic molls who always seemed overdressed for trips to Mars.
To keep the question alive whether any of it was real in Arroway's mind, elements such as ocean waves running in reverse and palm tree shadows swaying with sped-up motion were applied.
Mind, element number three.
And so the Hamiltonian concept of collage does spring to mind, taking elements from here, there and everywhere, and from them creating something new..
The whimsical, eccentric, fantasy-prone young heroine; the handsome drifter who wanders into her life; the music of yearning that seems to hum in everyone's mind: such elements, typical of a work by, say, William Inge, are conspicuously in evidence here.
We may have some intended interpretation in mind, but elements of the formal language are purely syntactic entities that we can discuss without invoking semantic properties such as reference or truth-conditions.
To the extent that a neutral monism can be regarded as a dual-aspect view (as in Spinoza's philosophy), it might be regarded as a kind of panpsychism in its own right, but James's view developed beyond this, to incorporate mind like elements into the basic structure of reality.
One thing I always ask myself is, "Can anyone take this photo?" Always keep in mind what elements are in your composition; lighting, people, distracting objects, all of which can take away from the moment in which you're trying to capture.
Lower anxiety has shown to be associated with improved performance and it is possible that the mind body elements of yoga reduce anxiety, thereby improving cognitive performance.
But the project was designed with these ultimate objectives in mind, incorporating elements that would make this a viable social enterprise, particularly if the network is expanded regionally or internationally and structured as an open innovation collaboration or co-venture between developed and developing country entities.
