This comes with the year 2050 in mind, by which time climate scientists have said there needs to be a major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if the worst impacts of climate change are to be avoided.
He speaks of the mind, which he calls "I, that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am", in ways that assume it is nevertheless accessible to instruction and correction by an I that stands apart from it.
In "Jolly," an autobiographical one-act play that is part of three meditations on his past called "The Old Neighborhood," which opens on Broadway this month, he addresses the psychological sleight of mind by which parents project their own inadequacy onto their children, as a grownup brother and sister sit talking about the sins of their parents: BOB ... That's their way.
At the climax, around two dozen dancers in inflatable round suits (and kerchief masks) arrive for the superb Left to My Own Devices and a euphoric Go West; they fleetingly recall Missy Elliott in The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly), returning in the encore to act out the words of Always on My Mind, by which point we are putty in the Pet Shop Boys' hands.
Second, the theory of mind, by which one chimpanzee infers the motives, intentions or feelings of another, depends on applying an analogy.
As the philosopher was well aware, there also existed what he referred to as the comfortable habits of mind by which women were regarded as second-class citizens.
AL: Steve Jobs said that computers are like bicycles for the mind, by which he meant you can literally ride them places.
In the seventh chapter of the Tractatus theologico-politicus (1670), Spinoza proposes that in order to understand the most dense and difficult sections of the Holy Scriptures, one must keep in mind the historical horizon in which these texts were written, as well as the mind by which they were produced.
But even that reality is relinquished in nirvana, the state of the mind by which all cravings and afflictions are released through meditation.
Strength of mind, by which Wollstonecraft meant "the degree to which [the mind] can independently reach its own conclusions" (emphasis in original), is central to her idea of the female genius.
