Another principle of classification leads to a list of 18 elements (dhatus): five sense organs, five objects of those senses, mind, the specific object of mind, and six kinds of consciousness (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactual, and purely mental).
This tendency has obvious evolutionary advantages -- it's safer to keep deadly objects front-of-mind than to ignore them--and as a result, our brains seem to be hardwired so that scary experiences contain hidden fascination, and fascinating experiences are often scary.
Although it is reported that very young infants have different responses to humans than to non-human objects, Theory of Mind develops relatively gradually and possibly results from predictable interactions with adults.
But then again, the universal information content of the objective concept itself, considered not insofar as it is in the mind as its object, but in itself, disregarding whatever may carry it, is distinguished from its carriers both in the mind and in the ultimate objects of the mind, the singular things, as the nature of these things in its absolute consideration.
Colour and extension are not mental qualities for Berkeley: colour can be seen, and extension can be touched; they are "sensible ideas," or sense-data, the direct objects of percipient mind.
But these universals are neither common natures "contracted" to individuals by some really or merely formally distinct principle of individuation, nor some universal objects of the mind, which exist in a "diminished" manner, as beings of reason.
In fact, because we think of creativity in terms of objects instead of minds, and outcomes instead of experiences, the idea of a lone, creative genius has become as inconceivable to us as the idea of a lone, unprofitable businessman.
There will be no separation or distancing between an object of the mind and the activity of the mind itself.
Rejecting the notion that ideas are the direct object of the mind's awareness, Reid substituted a view of perception in which sensations "suggest" material objects.
That's because beauty is exclusively an object of the mind.
