This time, the problem was that the move would raise the numbers of people with the diagnosis, increasing health care costs and the use of already pervasive mind-altering drugs, as well as pathologizing a normal life experience.
The situation changed, however, once the Stoics had established a rigorously physicalist system ruled by an all-pervasive divine mind.
Yet, with advances in neural engineering, brain imaging and pervasive neurotechnology, the mind might no longer be such unassailable fortress.
The defense firm Yoyodyne, Inc., central to the plot of "The Crying of Lot 49," makes its first appearance in "V.," and the yo-yo itself is referenced more than two dozen times, both as a symbol of Profane's character and as a more pervasive "state of mind," as one chapter heading has it.
To my mind, that pervasive lightness is one of the novel's virtues and helps conceal some of its flaws.
In your opinion, is it simply the lack of economic opportunity that has led to violence, or is it something more insidious and pervasive — a state of mind?
There's a growing chance that it will belong to a robot: a new and ever more pervasive kind of independent mind.
The use of the first-person-possessive determiner brings to mind the pervasive superstition that everyone has a novel "in them," some inner reserve of pure creative potential awaiting realization and recognition.
He adopted Ribot's scientific definition of psychology; sided with Bernheim, contra Charcot, that hypnotic susceptibility did not depend on degenerative heredity; and declared Bernheim right to have stressed the mind's pervasive suggestibility.
Ideal for a professional couple, who can afford a £750 per month rent split and also do not mind the pervasive smell of exposed and untreated wood.
And that desperate desire that yearning to get better, to be normal (but to be time and time again thwarted by your mind) is pervasive in our society, even if we're not that good at talking about it yet.
