心灵
The human mind is designed to seek out and find evidence that confirms what it already believes.
The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.
The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious, reasoning part of the mind has only limited control over the automatic, emotional part.
Positive emotions are like nutrients for the mind, helping us grow and flourish.
Positivity transforms us for the better. By opening our hearts and minds, positive emotions allow us to discover and build new skills, new ties, new knowledge, and new ways of being.
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
The way to learn about the mind is to reverse-engineer it: to figure out what natural selection designed it to accomplish.
The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.
Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.
The mind is not a blank slate but a dynamic system that constantly adapts and reorganizes itself.
The mind is a product of evolution and learning.
Understanding the mind requires understanding how symbols are grounded in perception and action.
The mind is a complex system that can be analyzed at multiple levels.
The mind is a dynamic system that constantly adapts to its environment.
The mind is a machine that can be understood through the principles of computation.