The cast is first-rate, with Mr. DeVries giving the evening's most affecting performance as Benjamin, whose dignified acceptance of his mind's malfunctioning strikes a moving note.
V. S. Ramachandran, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, has done as much as anyone to reveal the workings of the mind through the malfunctions of the brain.
The detail of the psychiatrist's reports which made up much of the story felt real, however, creating a clear sense of how powerless patients can be made to feel when it's their mind that's malfunctioning, rather than their body.
It's subtle what are you channeling? if you practice awareness of inner self for some time, you will notice how most of our consciousness is consumed by our mind until it malfunctions.
Not wardrobe malfunction levels, mind you, but sexy enough to catch our attention.
Anyone who's got a mind knows that it could malfunction at some time.
They, too, believe sociability is the key to how the human mind functions or, perhaps more pertinently, malfunctions.
The mystery of depression is not that it exists — the mind, like the flesh, is prone to malfunction.
Assembled from a palate as antiseptically clean as the inside of a brand new hard drive, Mind Merge is most striking for the seeming malfunctions caused by wayward gusts of noise.
HAL 9000, in "2001: A Space Odyssey," will forever come to mind, his advice, we assume, eminently reliable — before his malfunction.
This functional conception has led to the idea of mind as a machine, with parts that operate and malfunction relatively independently.
