I always have a picture in my mind of what a given track should sound like before we start.
Another approach is taken by Kirk Ludwig (1996a), who argues that there is nothing to determine whose state of mind a given non-conscious state of mind is, unless that state consists in a disposition to produce a conscious mental state of the right sort.
As the months and years progress, children develop this capacity more fully, although it fluctuates depending on their state of mind at a given moment.
With this goal in mind, the workability of a given strategy largely depends on how we deal with diverse germplasm and how we reliably phenotype materials and identify useful genes with minor effects, to integrate such information into our research flow.
Mind wandering presents wide inter-individual variability, and the mind-wandering trait appears as the personal characteristic of a tendency toward mind wandering for a given period of time (Mrazek, Smallwood, Franklin, Baird, Chin & Schooler, 2012a).
But it seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.
The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information.
It also bears mentioning that slips of the tongue like some of those quoted by Mr. Pinker are frequently revelatory of the dark recesses of a given human mind.
Pragmatism always enters into the mind of a jurist, so given the present state of those in Congress, a justice knows that a tax increase for health care would never get through Congress when Republicans would never stand for a tax increase for anyone regardless of the reason?
Even though science is obviously a conscious activity, the participation of mind was taken as a given, like the air in the room.
