Mind in Motion

Mind, as defined earlier, is one way of referring to the active production and display of images arising from actual perception or from memory recall or from both. The images that constitute a mind flow in a never-ending cortege and, as they do so, describe all sorts of actors and objects, all sorts of actions and relationships, all sorts of qualit

In this book I ask why the mind “tries” to make sense of a new input. Why is there a natural tendency to organize the fresh input to make it fit among past receptions? The answer that comes from physics is one, and it is general: empowering the individual with speed and clarity of thought, understanding, decision making, and movement on the earth’s

In my four books, The Developing Mind, Mindsight, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and Aware, I proposed that mind is an emergent property of embodied and relational energy flow; this flow arises—emerges—within our skin-encased body and brain (embodied flow) and within our relationships with people and the planet (relational flow).

The ones we are concerned with here are simpler: they reside in the minds of the people who are using the product, so they are also “mental models.” Mental models, as the name implies, are the conceptual models in people’s minds that represent their understanding of how things work. Different people may hold different mental models of the same item

Thought becomes action becomes the order of things, but no straight road takes you there.