Tag: mind
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May 27, 2022
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
In order to continue with my investigations of Artificial Intelligence (AI), I am looking into historical understandings of the mind. Mind is also one of the great ideas, so obviously there has been a lot of research, discussion, and theorizing about what it is, where it is located, and how it functions. For today’s blog, I simply focus on Lucretius.
June 17, 2016
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – Shakespeare, Hamlet
Last week, we discussed the practice of being fully present within an actual moment, whereas today we will discover what a number of authors say about the mind’s ability to conjure presences, to bring memories into a present moment.