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If there is an interaction, then the "mind" and "brain" are independent variables; the mind represents subjective experience and is therefore a non-physical phenomenon.
On such a view (roughly): experiences or states of mind are conscious just insofar as the mind represents itself as having them.
(Cf. Currie 1995c, 161) In its original form, Berkeley's Puzzle is presented as a puzzle about the possibility of conceiving of something neither perceived nor thought of, or, as Winkler (1989) suggests, as a puzzle of how it could be that an idea in the mind represents the mind-independence of what is represented.
Some historical discussions of the representational properties of mind (e.g., Aristotle De Anima, Locke 1689/1975, Hume 1739/1978) seem to assume that nonconceptual representations — percepts ("impressions"), images ("ideas") and the like — are the only kinds of mental representations, and that the mind represents the world in virtue of being in states that resemble things in it.
The most recent trend of spoken word – adverts about how coffee "enlightens the senses, brightens the mind" – represents the cosy realisation of this.
Precisely how the mind represents categories has received a substantial amount of attention and recently theories of categorization have been informed by studies involving amnesic patients and functional imaging.
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It's a play which incidentally demonstrates the grimness of the English establishment: the dons who think of themselves as promoting the life of the mind represent the death of the imagination, as they resist Ramanujan as a fellow.
In the via moderna, a concept is just an act of the mind representing singulars in a more or less indifferent manner, yielding a more or less universal signification for the term.
The open mind represents the capacity to see the world with fresh eyes and to suspend old habits of thought.
Leibniz's theory of mind entails that every mind represents the universe (the "universal expression" thesis), which would always necessarily include a self-expression.
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