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    No-mind (Chinese: 無心, pinyin: wuxin; Japanese: mushin; Sanskrit: acitta, acittika, or acintya) is a mental state that is important in East Asian religions...
    33 KB (4,688 words) - 03:57, 20 June 2024
  • world. Another way to state it is that, "given an existing problem, it may be better not to do something, or even to do nothing, than to risk causing more...
    7 KB (799 words) - 06:21, 11 April 2024
  • Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
    that have been employed to compare and contrast subjectivity and objectivity. A general distinction can be extracted from these discussions: Something is...
    25 KB (3,010 words) - 10:04, 10 July 2024
  • that the mind is a place where mental images are apprehended, perceived, or remembered. Sensations, thoughts, and feelings do not belong to a mental world...
    18 KB (2,288 words) - 21:09, 14 January 2024
  • the mind to the body. Dualism and monism are the two central schools of thought on the mind–body problem, although nuanced views have arisen that do not...
    87 KB (11,051 words) - 16:33, 31 July 2024
  • Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently or...
    89 KB (12,145 words) - 07:16, 3 August 2024
  • Something to Remember is a compilation album by American singer Madonna, released by Maverick Records on November 3, 1995. The album was conceived after...
    78 KB (6,559 words) - 00:47, 26 July 2024
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    many modern philosophers of mind to maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body. These approaches have been particularly influential...
    61 KB (7,502 words) - 13:38, 30 July 2024
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    by consciousness, including the possible insolubility of the mind–body problem owing to "facts beyond the reach of human concepts", the limits of objectivity...
    13 KB (1,534 words) - 13:34, 14 June 2024
  • that quantum mechanics has something to do with the workings of the mind. He proposed that the wave function collapses due to its interaction with consciousness...
    73 KB (8,324 words) - 01:57, 24 July 2024
  • However, all of the versions share the central idea that the mind is identical to something physical. U. T. Place's (1956) notion of the relation of identity...
    17 KB (2,281 words) - 16:42, 5 August 2024
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    mental capacities do not function as they should. It is widely accepted that animals have some form of mind, but it is controversial to which animals this...
    180 KB (17,250 words) - 19:02, 30 July 2024
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    detailed, precise knowledge of something that human beings have always known, or at least could have known, which is that the mind (at least in this mortal...
    92 KB (11,739 words) - 16:40, 4 August 2024
  • as doing something—making a promise—rather than making an assertion about anything. Hence the title of one of his best-known works, How to Do Things with...
    43 KB (5,412 words) - 11:07, 4 August 2024
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    Meditations on First Philosophy (category Articles that link to foreign-language Wikisources)
    that which God can and ought to do. He says that we have to consider God as incomprehensible and infinite, and our minds as limited and finite. Finally...
    49 KB (6,993 words) - 12:47, 8 April 2024
  • to do something but unable to try, due to a strong aversion. In order to avoid these and other counterexamples, various alternative approaches have been...
    40 KB (5,065 words) - 11:31, 19 April 2024
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    China brain (category Thought experiments in philosophy of mind)
    that connect neurons. Would this arrangement have a mind or consciousness in the same way that brains do? Early versions of this scenario were put forward...
    9 KB (1,057 words) - 18:01, 26 June 2024
  • classical piece, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude No. 1 in C major", as background music. "Do Something Good" is a reggae song, reminiscent of Bob Marley...
    112 KB (10,509 words) - 20:05, 14 July 2024
  • assistant editor Zack Parsons. Something Awful forum user GreenMeat deployed to Iraq in 2004, despite his unit not having hard body armor. SA forum users...
    19 KB (1,908 words) - 02:17, 21 July 2024
  • exist, then something similar would have to have been invented: the plot device is too useful for any writer to ignore. The fear of mind control is equally...
    31 KB (4,392 words) - 18:06, 18 July 2024
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