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81Pythagoreans and Eleatics — Edward Hussey PYTHAGORAS AND THE EARLY PYTHAGOREANS Pythagoras, a native of Samos, emigrated to southern Italy around 520, and seems to have established himself in the city of Croton. There he founded a society of people sharing his beliefs and… …
82Anatta — Part of a series on Buddhism Outline · Portal History Timeline · Councils …
83Mindstream — Part of a series on Buddhism Outline · Portal History Timeline · Councils …
84consciousness — /kon sheuhs nis/, n. 1. the state of being conscious; awareness of one s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc. 2. the thoughts and feelings, collectively, of an individual or of an aggregate of people: the moral consciousness of …
85dream — dreamful, adj. dreamfully, adv. dreamfulness, n. dreamingly, adv. dreamlike, adj. /dreem/, n., v., dreamed or dreamt, dreaming, adj. n. 1. a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep. 2. the sleeping state… …
86Association of Ideas — • A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Association of Ideas Association of Ideas …
87Dilthey, Wilhelm — Dilthey Michael Lessnoff INTRODUCTION Wilhelm Dilthey was born in 1833 near Wiesbaden, and thus lived through the period of Bismarck’s creation of a unified German Empire by ‘blood and iron’. These turbulent events, however, scarcely perturbed… …
88Brain-computer interface — A brain computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain machine interface, is a direct communication pathway between a human or animal brain (or brain cell culture) and an external device. In one way BCIs,… …
89nutrition, human — Introduction process by which substances in food are transformed into body tissues and provide energy for the full range of physical and mental activities that make up human life. The study of human nutrition is interdisciplinary in… …
90Idea — Plato, one of the first philosophers to discuss ideas in detail. For other uses, see Idea (disambiguation). In the most narrow sense, an idea is just whatever is before the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed as representational …
