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1 Mind
It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)[Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive AnalysesRecent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind
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2 Mind-body Problem
From this I knew that I was a substance the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence there is no need of any place, nor does it depend on any material thing; so that this "me," that is to say, the soul by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from body, and is even more easy to know than is the latter; and even if body were not, the soul would not cease to be what it is. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 101)still remains to be explained how that union and apparent intermingling [of mind and body]... can be found in you, if you are incorporeal, unextended and indivisible.... How, at least, can you be united with the brain, or some minute part in it, which (as has been said) must yet have some magnitude or extension, however small it be? If you are wholly without parts how can you mix or appear to mix with its minute subdivisions? For there is no mixture unless each of the things to be mixed has parts that can mix with one another. (Gassendi, 1970, p. 201)here are... certain things which we experience in ourselves and which should be attributed neither to the mind nor body alone, but to the close and intimate union that exists between the body and the mind.... Such are the appetites of hunger, thirst, etc., and also the emotions or passions of the mind which do not subsist in mind or thought alone... and finally all the sensations. (Descartes, 1970b, p. 238)With any other sort of mind, absolute Intelligence, Mind unattached to a particular body, or Mind not subject to the course of time, the psychologist as such has nothing to do. (James, 1890, p. 183)[The] intention is to furnish a psychology that shall be a natural science: that is to represent psychical processes as quantitatively determinate states of specifiable material particles, thus making these processes perspicuous and free from contradiction. (Freud, 1966, p. 295)The thesis is that the mental is nomologically irreducible: there may be true general statements relating the mental and the physical, statements that have the logical form of a law; but they are not lawlike (in a strong sense to be described). If by absurdly remote chance we were to stumble on a non-stochastic true psychophysical generalization, we would have no reason to believe it more than roughly true. (Davidson, 1970, p. 90)We can divide those who uphold the doctrine that men are machines, or a similar doctrine, into two categories: those who deny the existence of mental events, or personal experiences, or of consciousness;... and those who admit the existence of mental events, but assert that they are "epiphenomena"-that everything can be explained without them, since the material world is causally closed. (Popper & Eccles, 1977, p. 5)Mind affects brain and brain affects mind. That is the message, and by accepting it you commit yourself to a special view of the world. It is a view that shows the limits of the genetic imperative on what we turn out to be, both intellectually and emotionally. It decrees that, while the secrets of our genes express themselves with force throughout our lives, the effect of that information on our bodies can be influenced by our psychological history and beliefs about the world. And, just as important, the other side of the same coin argues that what we construct in our minds as objective reality may simply be our interpretations of certain bodily states dictated by our genes and expressed through our physical brains and body. Put differently, various attributes of mind that seem to have a purely psychological origin are frequently a product of the brain's interpreter rationalizing genetically driven body states. Make no mistake about it: this two-sided view of mind-brain interactions, if adopted, has implications for the management of one's personal life. (Gazzaniga, 1988, p. 229)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind-body Problem
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تَذَكَّرَ \ bear in mind: to keep in one’s mind; to remember: I will bear your needs in mind when I make my report. mind: keep/bear (sth.) in mind remember; not forget: I’ll keep your advice in mind when I have to make the decision. recall, recollect, remember: to remember, to keep in mind, to have in one’s memory; not forget: I can’t remember your name. I may have seen it, but I can’t remember (doing so). Did you remember to lock the door?. -
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[maɪnd]1.the power by which one thinks etc; the intelligence or understanding:عَقْلThe child already has the mind of an adult.
2. verb1) to look after or supervise (eg a child):يَرْعى، يَعْتَنيmind the baby.
2) to be upset by; to object to:يهْتَم، يَنْزَعِجYou must try not to mind when he criticizes your work.
3) to be careful of:يَحْتَرِس، يَحْذَرMind (= be careful not to trip over) the step!
4) to pay attention to or obey:يَهْتَم في، يَنْتَبِه إلى، يُطيعYou should mind your parents' words/advice.
3. interjectionbe careful!:إنْتَبِه! إحْذَر!Mind! There's a car coming!
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اِسْتَنْكَرَ \ deplore: to be very sorry about and consider to be wrong (sth. that is not one’s own fault): I deplore the custom of smoking at meals. disapprove: to consider sth. to be wrong or undesirable: I disapprove of smoking. mind: to be troubled (by): Do you mind if I smoke? Do you mind my smoking? Would you mind passing me that book? Do what you like; I don’t mind. \ See Also مانع (مَانَعَ) -
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مَانَعَ \ mind: to be troubled (by): Do you mind if I smoke? Do you mind my smoking? Would you mind passing me hat book? Do what you like; I don’t mind. resist: to use force against (an attacker, an attack, etc.); prevent, or try to prevent (an attempt, an effrot, etc.); refuse (a demand); remain strong in spite of some weakening force: He could not resist the offer of a better job. -
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اِنْتَبِهْ (خُذْ بالَك!) \ Mind (you): please note: I don’t like it, mind you, but I can’t easily prevent it. \ لاحِظْ \ Mind (you): please note: I don’t like it, mind you, but I can’t easily prevent it. -
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• Many men, many minds - Ум на ум не приходится (У)• Mind other men, but most yourself - Своя рубашка ближе к телу (C)• So many men, so many minds - Сколько голов, столько и умов (C)• Sound mind in a sound body (A) - В здоровом теле – здоровый дух (B)• Strong body makes the mind strong (A) - В здоровом теле – здоровый дух (B)• Two minds are better than one - Одна голова хорошо, а две лучше (O), Ум - хорошо, а два - лучше (У) -
11 Mind Map™
Gen Mgta graphic tool that can be used to visualize and clarify thoughts or ideas. In a Mind Map, the central image or idea is drawn in the middle of a piece of paper with major branches radiating from it to denote related themes. Second and third levels of thought are connected by thinner branches. Mind Maps can include the use of color or pictures. Developed by Tony Buzan, the Mind Mapping technique can be used to introduce order and rationality to thought processes, and develop the creative, artistic, logical, and mathematical elements of the brain. -
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عَقْل \ head: the brain: I did that sum in my head. mentality: the manner of thinking that controls character and behaviour: I can’t understand the mentality of anyone who would do a terrible thing like that !. mind: that with which we think; brain: His mind was full of evil thoughts. reason: common sense; sensible and fair opinion or advice: He’s too excited to listen to reason. sense: (also common sense) reasonable ideas; natural good judgement; natural wisdom: Do talk sense! You should have enough sense to keep out of trouble. wits: good sense; quickness of mind: Keep your wits about you (Be ready to think and act quickly). \ See Also كلام مَعْقُول، حصافة (حَصَافَة) -
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لا يَغيب عن البال \ mind: keep/bear (sth.) in mind to remember; not forget: I’ll keep your advice in mind when I have to make the decision. -
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اِهْتَمَّ بِـ \ mind one’s own business: to look after one’s own concerns, not those of other people. \ See Also راعى شؤونَهُ الخاصة \ رَاعَى \ mind one’s own business: to look after one’s own concerns, not those of other people. \ See Also اهْتَمَّ بشؤونِهِ الخاصة \ لا يَتدخَّل في شؤون الآخرين \ mind one’s own business: to look after one’s own concerns, not those of other people. -
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عُنِيَ بِـ \ care for: to look after: Who will care for these fatherless children?. mind: to attend to; look after (a baby, animals, a machine, sth. that is left in one’s care for a short time, etc.): His wife minds the shop while he has a meal. Mind your own business! (keep out of other people’s affairs!). take care of: to look after: I’ll take care of your children while you’re away. look after: to take care of: He looks after his old parents. -
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رَاعَى (يُراعي) \ consider: to think of; care about the feelings of: You must consider other people as well as yourself. make allowance(s) for: to take into consideration facts that may change sth., esp. an opinion: The judge made allowance(s) for his youth, and punished him lightly. mind: to attend to; look after (a baby, animals, a machine, sth. that is left in one’s care for a short time, etc.): His wife minds the shop while he has a meal. Mind your own business!; (Keep out of other people’s affairs!). observe: to pay attention to (rules); honour (a custom, a feast day, etc.). respect: to honour (a person); treat (sb.’s feelings or possessions, etc.) with consideration: Children should respect their parents. -
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machine for intelligent diagnosis — машина интеллектуальной диагностики, машина MIND
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