I believe that in these cases I accidentally unlocked a lumber room in the mind, in which vestigial faculties shaped by our evolutionary past are stored.
Rousseau's was truly a life of the mind, in which questions of religion, politics, education, art, music and ethics were never arbitrarily separated from one another for the sake of scholarly convenience.
But he gives no argument for a preference that seems to be an artifact of his threefold picture of the mind, in which desire alone acts as the spring of action.
Repeating Mr. Bush's statements that in the coming battle "there are no beaches to storm and islands to take," she said this would be "a war of will and the mind," in which intelligence would be the most important asset.
In this paper, we report a novel study testing a constructionist model of the mind in which participants generated three kinds of mental states (emotions, body feelings, or thoughts) while we measured activity within large-scale distributed brain networks using fMRI.
This is funny, but painful, too: we have witnessed a solitary confinement of the mind, in which a teen-ager has struggled, first of all, to convert a paranoid disorder into a heroic mental movie, and then has found that, outside his brain, where the civilians of sanity live, he can communicate nothing of his experience.
Judge McMahon questioned whether prosecutors had proved there was ever a "meeting of the minds" in which Ms. Annabi agreed to the retainer-like arrangement in return for providing Mr. Jereis, the former chairman of the Yonkers Republican Party, with official acts when he sought them.
On March 12, the judge asked what evidence existed of a "meeting of the minds," in which Ms. Annabi, who was Democratic majority leader of the council, had agreed in return for gifts to provide Mr. Jereis, a former Yonkers Republican chairman, with official acts when he sought them.
Forty years ago, Julian Jaynes, a psychologist at Princeton, published a landmark book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," in which he proposed a biological basis for the hearing of divine voices.
I think there is also much to be learned from David Chalmers's concept of the extended mind, in which the environment influences the mind, and Edward Slingerland's expositions on embodied cognition.
That same year, she recalls, she saw the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which a young man undergoes treatment with a drug that erases all memories of a former girlfriend and their painful breakup.
