Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Autonoetic

 Autonoetic consciousness is the human ability to mentally place oneself in the past and future (i.e. mental time travel) or in counterfactual situations (i.e. alternative outcomes), and to thus be able to examine one's own thoughts.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Mindstream


Mindstream, mind stream, or mental stream is the English translation of a Buddhist philosophical term (Sanskrit citta-saṃtāna) for the moment-to-moment continuity of consciousness.

The mindstream doctrine, like most Buddhist doctrines, is not homogeneous and shows historical development (as is evident through the exploration of this article), different applications according to context and varied definitions employed by different Buddhist traditions and yana.

synanthrope

 A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...