Sentence examples for operations of mind from inspiring English sources

In the 1994 best-seller "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain," the neurologist Antonio Damasio reports that Descartes believed in an "abyssal separation between body and mind... the separation of the most refined operations of mind from the structure and operation of a biological organism".

Cognitive science is becoming increasingly aware of the need to view the operations of mind in particular physical and social environments.

The mind-body union and the essential intentionality which results from it create the mutual dependence of the operations of mind and matter without requiring that mind be material or matter be immaterial.

If we allow that "these two circumstances take place in the voluntary actions of men and in the operations of mind" (EU, 8.6/83), then we must accept that the moral realm is governed by necessity.

Finally, according to what we might call the "Deflationary" conception of action, actions are simply motions of bodies or operations of minds.

This paper presents a theory of the basic operation of mind, Information Dynamics of Thinking, which is intended for computational implementation and thence empirical testing.

This mixture is set into rotary motion by the operation of Mind (Nous – B12, B13, B14; see discussions in Laks 1993, Lesher 1995, Menn 1995, Curd 2007), a separate cosmic entity that does not share in such mixture.

New clue #3: It is impossible to separate the mind-like behavior of subatomic particles from the actual operation of mind as experienced in everyday life.

Priestley and Hartley apply Newtonianism not only to the operations of the mind but to the mind's substance via materialist commitments.

On the contrary, it is meant to establish what Berkeley thinks to be the unavoidable metaphysical consequences of a position that takes ideas "in the mind" to be the only material for the operations of the mind in its acquisition of knowledge.

These faculties were attributed by the British as well as their Continental opponents to what was called "the mind" (mens, consciousness, Bewußtsein), an attribution which resulted in moving the "operations of the mind" into the center of philosophical attention.