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  • the word 'have', which can mean 'keep' or 'to have in one's possession', but which can also be used as a synonym for 'eat' (e.g. 'to have breakfast')...
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    endings, to something happening in the peripheral nerves of one's body that lead to one's brain, to something happening in a particular part of one's brain...
    92 KB (11,739 words) - 16:40, 4 August 2024
  • to indicate something lying in the mind beneath consciousness – or qualitatively – to indicate another consciousness, a subterranean one, as it were....
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  • Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
    be too hot; both views are subjective. Something is objective if it can be confirmed independently of a mind. If a claim is true even when considering...
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    via drugs (such as antipsychotics, SSRIs, or alcohol) can change one's state of mind in nontrivial ways. Alternatively, therapeutic interventions like...
    61 KB (7,502 words) - 13:38, 30 July 2024
  • relationship of 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...
    87 KB (11,051 words) - 16:33, 31 July 2024
  • Solipsism (category Metaphysics of mind)
    idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the...
    37 KB (4,525 words) - 14:17, 6 August 2024
  • from one's own. Possessing a functional theory of mind is crucial for success in everyday human social interactions. People utilize a theory of mind when...
    133 KB (16,832 words) - 01:56, 4 August 2024
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    Consciousness (redirect from Conscious mind)
    generates) and phenomenal experience... Something within one's mind is 'introspectively conscious' just in case one introspects it (or is poised to do so)...
    153 KB (18,024 words) - 17:25, 6 August 2024
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    definition of mind is disputed and while it is generally accepted that some non-human animals also have mind, there is no agreement on where exactly the...
    180 KB (17,250 words) - 19:02, 30 July 2024
  • Wigner developed the idea that quantum mechanics has something to do with the workings of the mind. He proposed that the wave function collapses due to...
    73 KB (8,324 words) - 01:57, 24 July 2024
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    training for one's mind to stay calm in the face of a great deal of different stimulation, and possible distractions, especially emotional ones. The negative...
    7 KB (751 words) - 02:28, 26 September 2023
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    What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (category Philosophy of mind literature)
    difficulties posed by consciousness, including the possible insolubility of the mind–body problem owing to "facts beyond the reach of human concepts", the limits...
    13 KB (1,534 words) - 13:34, 14 June 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
  • 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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    Tabula rasa (category Theory of mind)
    aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behaviour, knowledge, or sapience are afterwards imprinted by one's environment onto the mind as one would...
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    phrase appeared in the Nebraska State Journal. Since both "off one's trolley" and "off one's rocker" became popular in the late 1890s about the same time...
    43 KB (2,017 words) - 07:38, 29 July 2024
  • explored on later songs, describing a mystical approach to salvation in which "the Kingdom of Heaven is within" and achievable through freeing one's mind, after...
    13 KB (994 words) - 21:19, 6 August 2024
  • to further one's own goals. Mask oneself. Either leave one's distinctive traits behind and become inconspicuous or masquerade as something or someone...
    21 KB (2,424 words) - 11:13, 1 July 2024
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    focuses on the human mind and body. Spinoza attacks several Cartesian positions: (1) that the mind and body are distinct substances that can affect one another;...
    49 KB (6,003 words) - 01:26, 6 May 2024
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