{"id":525,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:19:18","slug":"mind-as-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Mind as Images?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Antonio Dam\u00e1sio, a well known neuroscientist, researcher, and author of books about <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/i\/i_12\/i_12_cr\/i_12_cr_con\/i_12_cr_con.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">consciousness<\/span><\/a>, concludes that the Mind is &#8217;em-bodied, not just em-brained&#8217;, and images are &#8216;the currency of our minds&#8217;. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In his view, an image is more than a visual representation; it is a &#8216;pattern in any of our senses, such as a sound image, a tactile image, the image of a state of well being&#8217;. From his perspective, an organism interacts with its environment as an ensemble, both influencing each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">So, one&#8217;s &#8216;mind&#8217; would then be the accumulated result of the interactive process between one&#8217;s attention-feedback from the environment and one&#8217;s physiology. Environment includes inner milieu, space, and any close objects &amp; organisms. Thus,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Attention + Body = Phenomenon of Mind<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=784\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Dam\u00e1sio, a well known neuroscientist, researcher, and author of books about consciousness, concludes that the Mind is &#8217;em-bodied, not just em-brained&#8217;, and images are &#8216;the currency of our minds&#8217;. In his view, an image is more than a visual representation; it is a &#8216;pattern in any of our senses, such as a sound image,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}