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The Make-up of Mind: The Conscious and Unconscious mind. (Cont’d from previous blog).
Quite apart from what I have written in the final paragraph of my most recent posting, I have left this blog concerning the conscious and unconscious mind until now in “the makeup of mind” for reasons which should also be … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Personality. (Continued from previous blog).
Over time – it might be argued – the most popular use of the word has come to refer to desirable and positive attributes and qualities of social skill and competence: hence the perceived need for “personality training” or the … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Personality. (Continued from previous blog).
Piece by piece, the picture is emerging of a self that is physical, neural, psychological, social, moral, aesthetic and – as future blogs will be at pains to show – spiritual. To live under any circumstances or conditions we require … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Emotion and Motivation. (Continued on directly from previous blog).
Nor – as already stated above – can we separate and in that sense distinguish emotion entirely from cognition (or feeling from thinking) since both are so evidently linked and bound up inextricably with physical and physiological as well as … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind. Emotion & Motivation. (Continued from previous blog).
We, all of us, have emotions and, at different times and for widely differing reasons, can experience feelings of happiness; at other times, sadness, relaxation, tension etc. We love and we hate; can sometimes sympathize or empathize with those about … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Cognition. (Cont’d from previous blog).
In posting this particular blog, I am well aware that its contents may very well possess only limited interest and in consequence may not be to your own personal and particular ‘taste’. However, I have decided to include what I … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Perception. (cont’d from previous blog).
Up to this point in time, we have acknowledged how it is that both the corporate and the individual concept of mind rely heavily on memory and language. It is this that makes communication with the self and with others … Continue reading
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The Makeup of Mind: Language/Information transmission.
A powerful facilitator of and stimulus to memory is, of course, language and it is via this capacity to assimilate and deploy words that man differs so markedly from other members of the animal kingdom. Indeed, one might – with … Continue reading
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THE Makeup of Mind: Memory. (Cont’d from prev.. ).
Having briefly noted something about how memory works, we also know that we possess basic memory types. We have for example a sensory and a motor memory. Not infrequently, we are reminded of an event by a smell or a … Continue reading
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The Makeup of Mind: Memory. (Cont’d from prev. blog).
Although the central thesis underpinning this series of postings can, hopefully, be seen to be progressing steadily by courtesy of the processes of evolution, i.e. through an account of brain, to mind and onward to a comprehension of spirit and … Continue reading
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