By the magic of cultural development, this model flowered into Rousseau's Confessions, an attempt to catch the self in the mirror of mind, and ultimately into tell-all talk shows whose anthropological strangeness is obscured by their vulgarity.
Perhaps Krakauer asks too much of his reader, but couldn't the accumulation of seemingly "disparate" details mirror the mind of one who first encounters the baffling and, indeed, terrifying connections between current events involving Mormon fundamentalists and Mormon history and doctrine?
Being able to interpret, or "mirror," another mind appears to be quite a sophisticated cognitive skill.
Most linguistic semanticists, cognitive scientists, and anthropologists would agree that in some sense, language is a mirror of mind.
To the extent that language is a mirror of mind, a computational understanding of language also provides insight into thinking and intelligence.
When the film version of "Twelve Angry Men" opened, A. H. Weiler wrote in The New York Times that it was "difficult to recall a more incisively revealing" courtroom drama, adding that the film "clearly mirrors the mind and heart of a variety of citizens in our town".
His body, mirroring his mind, often reacted in much the same way it would when under physical attack: shortness of breath, palpitations and muscle tension -- an anxiety response.
It's where you go when you get bored, more bored, and then finally allow yourself to get so bored that you don't want anything other than this lovely blissful boredom, peaceful, quiet, radiant awareness, mirror-like mind, gazing, gaping, just hanging there, doing nothing, non-seeking, non-desiring.
This ground-breaking music mirrored the mind-expanding drugs, magical excursions, pagan celebrations and Bohemian lifestyle associated with the counterculture – and characters in Tolkien's books.
A trio of funhouse mirrors is labeled "Mirrors of the Mind".
I did enjoy writing in MIRROR OF THE MIND and FAIR-HAIRED CHILD.
