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Brain-Body-Mind Problem: A Short Historical and Interdisciplinary Survey

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According to the encyclopedia, mind refers to the collective aspects of intellect and consciousness that are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion, will, and imagination.

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    Pensées by Blaise Pascal translated by W.F. Trotter.

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    In mathematics there are also intuitive solutions. See the story of H. Poincarre in Chap. 20.

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Başar, E. (2011). Brain-Body-Mind Problem: A Short Historical and Interdisciplinary Survey. In: Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6136-5_1

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