mind

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      686 words ...mind / mīnd / • n. 1. the element of a person that...consciousness and thought: as the thoughts ran through his mind, he came to a conclusion. ∎  a person's mental...processes contrasted with physical action: I wrote a letter in my mind. 2. a person's intellect. ∎  the ...

DEVELOPING THE EXPERIENCE OF GROUP MIND*

et Cetera;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Is the human mind [...] like a dark cavern (needing illumination...our minds, and no one is quite sure what "mind" is. Neil Postman, The End of Education...to be the first speaker to kick off The Mind and Consciousness Seminar Series. I will...

Changing the Cartesian Mind: Leibniz on Sensation, Representation and...

The Philosophical Review;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Leibniz have to contribute to the philosophy of mind? To judge from textbooks in the philosophy of mind, and even Leibniz commentaries, the answer...That may be because Leibniz's philosophy of mind looks roughly like a Cartesian philosophy of...

Developing the experience of group mind.(Lecture)

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......an interactive lecture-seminar for the Mind and Consciousness Seminar Series, co-sponsored...Institute in New York City. Is the human mind [...] like a dark cavern (needing illumination...our minds, and no one is quite sure what mind is. Neil Postman, The End of Education...

Meditation can cultivate a serene state of mind.(NATION)(THE CAPITAL...

The Washington Times;  July 5, 2004 ;     573 words ......Meditation is not about just clearing the mind. This only pacifies disturbances for a...We want to learn to cultivate states of mind that induce inner peace. We want to take...control. Right now we are the servants of our mind. When talking to someone and they don't...

How the human got its mind: debunking the last great myth in psychology.

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...DESPITE THE FACT THAT MIND is a pre-scientific concept that dates back at least to...philosophy. Consider the titles of several recent books: How The Mind Works (by Steven Pinker), The Mind's I and Kinds of Minds (by Daniel Dennett), The Maladapted...

Psychology is a behavioral science, not a biological science. A discussion...

The Psychological Record;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......that is, the study of behavior and of the mind. While the discipline has had little difficulty...anything near consensus about what is meant by mind, or even if there exists such a thing or process. Ideas about the mind can be traced back to the beginnings of...

How The Human Got Its Mind

Skeptic;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Great Myth in Psychology DESPITE THE FACT THAT "MIND" is a pre-scientific concept that dates back at...Consider the tides of several recent books: How The Mind Works (by Steven Pinker), The Mind's I and Kinds of Minds (by Daniel Dennett), The...

`The Mind': Making Connections

The Washington Post;  October 11, 1988 ;     700+ words ......thought by postulating the separateness of mind from body, a thesis that was to govern...what you might call a unified theory of mind-thought-brain-body, and even so, the so-call...giving fits to the TV producers of "The Mind," the nine-part sequel to "The Brain...

FUNNY THING, THE MIND

The Boston Globe;  August 31, 1990 ;     575 words ...Strange how the mind works, or doesn't work. At breakfast the other day I poured...coffee pot was right next to the milk pitcher, and the mind was in neutral. I think that's where the mind was -- between gears, disengaged from mundane thought processes...

Newsroom is where the mind is at its creative best

New Straits Times;  August 6, 2003 ;     559 words ......Times 08-06-2003 Newsroom is where the mind is at its creative best Byline: Phlip Rodrigues...of making food appear on the table. The mind is locked in a narrow world, with no open...all that matters. In this atmosphere the mind slowly withers, and only the physical urge...

The kingdom of the mind.

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  March 1, 2005 ;     345 words ...Edward Dyer (1540-1607), English poet, saw his mind as a kingdom: My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find...Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Some have too much, yet still do...

The Matter of The Mind;The Companion To the PBS Series

The Washington Post;  November 11, 1988 ;     634 words ...THE MIND By Richard M. Restak MD Bantam. 328 pp...thought and feeling are the stuff of "The Mind," neurologist Richard Restak's wonderful...because much of what we know of the human mind comes from studying its aberrations, the...

Reflections: How's your state of mind?

Charleston Gazette;  August 5, 1999 ;     358 words ...State of mind. I have a state of mind about a lot of things. This hot weather is no state of mind. It's a state of real. I've heard of people that thought they were sick just because somebody looked in their eyes and said "You don't look so good...

Head Games: Mind Versus Brain

National Dragster;  March 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ...I once read that the human brain/mind is so incredibly complicated that it will...open to much debate, but that the human mind is complicated is very much true. Some initial reading on the subject of the brain/mind will provide the reason most of us ended...