human mind

Seat of thought

The human mind is the totality of cognitive and psychological faculties—consciousness, perception, thought, memory, emotion, will.

It encompasses both rational intellect and unconscious processes.

The term often implies something beyond mere brain function: The human mind remains science's greatest mystery.

Philosophy and religion debate whether mind is reducible to physical matter or constitutes something separate.

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habits · introspection · mindfulness · happiness · higher consciousness · intuition · unconscious bias · wonder · cognition · subconscious · stream of consciousness · creativity · archetypes · self-identity · reasoning · attention · awareness · thought

Opposites
consciousness and cognition type

human mindartificial intelligence

Machines mimicking human thought

machine intelligence · artificial general intelligence · computer · hive mind · algorithm

mind-body dualism

human mindhuman body

Corporeal self

physical body · matter · flesh · corporeal form · brain tissue

cognitive sophistication

human mindanimal instinct

Innate behavioral drive

unreason · irrationality · reptilian brain · gut feeling · raw emotion

Family

mind, human

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