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the only place you can't escape, and the only one worth exploring.
means The seat of your thoughts, awareness, memory, and reasoning — the inner faculty by which you perceive, decide, and know yourself.
from From Old English 'gemynd,' meaning memory or thought, and behind it the Proto-Germanic root for remembering. Go deeper and it ties to a Proto-Indo-European root *men- meaning 'to think,' a sprawling family that also gave us 'mental,' 'memory,' 'monitor,' and the Latin 'mens.' Note how the oldest sense leans hard on remembering — to 'mind' something, to 'call to mind,' to be 'reminded' — as if the ancients understood the mind first as the keeper of what was, before it became the engine of what could be.
- power draw
- runs on about 20 watts, dimmer than a bulb
- no off switch
- stays active during deep sleep and dreams
- narrator
- invents reasons after you've already decided
- plasticity
- physically rewires itself from a single new thought
- blind spot
- can't sense its own moment of forgetting
oliver sacks — neurologist who documented unusual mind cases like the man who mistook his wife for a hat
daniel kahneman — psychologist who won nobel prize in 2002 for research on how the mind makes decisions
temple grandin — autism advocate with visual thinking mind who revolutionized animal behavior science