Indeed, the possibility that collective responsibility requires, not only collective actions and intentions, but a collective mind, has proven to be one of the greatest challenges to those who want to sustain a notion of collective responsibility.
But this apparent meeting of minds has proved illusory.
But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people's minds has proven to be difficult and expensive.
Thus, during the last decade many minds have proven vulnerable to hackers--that is, to the psychotherapists who encourage patients to "remember" lurid fictions as actual facts from their own lives.
After all, although quantum mechanics might not satisfy the philosophically minded, it has proved to be a completely dependable tool for physicists — even those who have no interest in debates about its interpretation.
Never mind that anthrax has proved surprisingly heat-resistant, which is why the Postal Service is looking at irradiation technology to kill any spores.
New Labour passed the Freedom of Information Act with this sort of theory in mind, and it has proved very uncomfortable for all sort of people, the latest being David Laws.
If you find it degrading to pay a woman to laugh at your jokes, keep in mind that the formula has proved so successful that about 100 "host" bars have opened in Kabukicho, catering to Tokyo's affluent professional women.
Trying to get inside the head of the person with the Bozo-the-Clown hair style, whom many consider to be the greatest mind of all times, has proved challenging.
Never mind that the task has proved harder than expected.
