The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.

A feeling of futility, an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue he had ever known, seeped through him.

With Ritter he was exposed to the fantastic profusion of ideas that stormed through his host's fertile but disorganized mind.

Her previous traumatic experiences flashed through her mind as if they had happened yesterday.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

We recognize that young people through imaginative mind and body training can become athletes, acrobats, dancers, musicians and artists, developing many potentialities.

It was a succession of picture-images passing through his mind: the same ones, different ones, in no apparent sequence, in no logical succession.

All this went through Casey's mind in the first instant, but what held his interest was the fact that these two should be together at all.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.

But we need not mind too much, because Mr. Nagrin has expressed it through movement that is diverting and clever almost all the way.

The secret little corner of his mind, which stayed sane through happiness and pain, made him wonder about B'dikkat.

Galileo wrote " Waves are produced by the vibrations of a sonorous body, which spread through the air, bringing to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus which the mind interprets as sound ", a remarkable statement that points to the beginnings of physiological and psychological acoustics.

He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russel and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards ' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the a view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.

He goes through explanations about theory of mind and higher order thought.

His explanations provide more complex answers through our various mental strategies in theory of mind that lead us to believe we are conscious as well as other people while trees and rocks are not conscious.

Christian Scientists see themselves as practicing a well-defined process with a proven track record by means of the spiritualization of thought through prayer aimed at shedding the false beliefs of the mortal mind that manifest themselves as physical ailments.

The inadvertent destruction of many of these eggs by a human mining colony led the mother Horta to respond by killing the colonists and sabotaging their equipment ; it was only through a Vulcan mind meld that the race's benevolence and intelligence were discovered and peaceful relations established.

The obvious problem is that, through introspection, or our experience of consciousness, we have no way of moving to conclude the existence of any third-personal fact, to conceive of which would require something above and beyond just the purely subjective contents of the mind.

To detect mutants to a wider area beyond this radius, he must amplify his powers through Cerebro and subsequently Cerebra, computer devices of his own design which are sensitive to the psychic / physical energies produced by the mind.

Hubbard coined Dianetics from the Greek stems dia, meaning through, and nous, meaning mind.

The pairing is paralleled with the combining of shareera ( body ) and vedana ( feelings or sensations which arise within the body but are experienced through the mind ) in major sutras such as the Mahasatipatthana sutra.

When the mind gets to a certain point, they can see through all the lies that they've been programmed to believe.

Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.

And when psychology explains glibly, `` but the subconscious mind is able to produce it '' it refers to a mental region so vaguely identified that it may embrace the entire universal mind as conceivably as part of the individual mind.

David Hume, after a relentless analysis of the mind, concluded that consciousness consists of fleeting mental states.

Some, like René Descartes, have thought that this is so ( this view is known as dualism, and functionalism also considers the mind as distinct from the body ), while others have thought that concepts of the mental can be reduced to physical concepts ( this is the view of physicalism or materialism ).

Many, but not all, who consider themselves cognitive scientists have a functionalist view of the mind — the view that mental states are classified functionally, such that any system that performs the proper function for some mental state is considered to be in that mental state.

The first is focused on abstract mental functions of an intelligent mind and operates using symbols, and the second, which follows the neural and associative properties of the human brain, is called subsymbolic.

In fact, it developed as one of the significant aspects of the inter-disciplinary subject of cognitive science, which attempts to integrate a range of approaches in research on the mind and mental processes.

* Cognitivism ( psychology ), a psychological approach to understanding the mind which argues that mental function can be understood as the ' internal ' manipulation of symbols.

** Mind Blast: Xavier is able to place massive amounts of information inside the mind of others to cause extreme mental pain on them.

He is able to project from his mind ' bolts ' composed of psychic energy, enabling him to stun the mind of another person into unconsciousness, inflict mental trauma, or even cause death.

In Dianetics, the unconscious or reactive mind is described as a collection of " mental image pictures ," which contain the recorded experience of past moments of unconsciousness, including all sensory perceptions and feelings involved, ranging from pre-natal experiences, infancy and childhood, even the traumatic feelings associated events from past lives and alien cultures.

Hubbard proposed that, via pain, physical or mental traumas caused " aberrations " ( deviations from rational thinking ) in the mind, which produced adverse physical and emotional effects.

According to Hubbard, auditing enables the preclear to " contact " and " release " engrams stored in the reactive mind, relieving him of the physical and mental aberrations connected with them.

Mind-body dualism can exist as substance dualism which claims that the mind and the body are composed of a distinct substance, and as property dualism which claims that there may not be a distinction in substance, but that mental and physical properties are still categorically distinct, and not reducible to each other.

Ahamkara, the ego or the phenomenal self, appropriates all mental experiences to itself and thus, personalizes the objective activities of mind and intellect by assuming possession of them.

Because mind is an evolute of matter, mental events are granted causal efficacy and are therefore able to initiate bodily motions.

Epiphenomenalism is the theory in philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are caused by physical processes in the brain or that both are effects of a common cause, as opposed to mental phenomena driving the physical mechanics of the brain.