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 <blockquote>Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today. … Our minds keep us in touch with aspects of reality — such as objects, animals, and people — that our ancestors dealt with for millions of years. But as science and technology open up new and hidden worlds, our untutored intuitions may find themselves at sea.</blockquote>
 <blockquote>…we have no mental tools to grasp [these subjects] intuitively. We depend on analogies that press an old mental faculty into service, or on jerry-built mental contraptions that wire together bits and pieces of other faculties. Understanding in these domains is likely to be uneven, shallow, and contaminated by primitive intuitions.</blockquote>
-* New learning has shown that the brain we were endowed with at birth needs lots of training to become the [[Mind]] that an adult uses without much concern.<ref>Lisa Feldman Barrett, ''How your Mind was Made'' MIT Technology Review 2021-09 Vol. 123 No 5 pp 8 ff.</ref> In that way it is much like the search tool in your handy internet connected computing device on your desk or in your pocket, a composition of many components in different locations.
+* New learning has shown that the brain we were endowed with at birth needs lots of training to become the [[Mind]] that an adult uses without much concern.<ref>Lisa Feldman Barrett, ''How your Mind was Made'' MIT Technology Review 2021-09 Vol. 123 No 5 pp 8 ff.</ref> In that way it is much like the search tool in your handy internet connected computing device on your desk or in your pocket, a composition of many components in different locations. And they both allows you to roll time backward and forward to the future. Turning your [[Mind]] into a time machine.
 <blockquote>It was believed that aspects of the mind had specific brain locations. .... Your mid is, in fact, an ongoing construction of your brain your body and the surrounding world. A second ingredient of your experience is sense data from events inside your body. The third ingredient is past experience. Without this the incoming sense data would be meaningless. </blockquote>

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 <blockquote>…we have no mental tools to grasp [these subjects] intuitively. We depend on analogies that press an old mental faculty into service, or on jerry-built mental contraptions that wire together bits and pieces of other faculties. Understanding in these domains is likely to be uneven, shallow, and contaminated by primitive intuitions.</blockquote>
 * New learning has shown that the brain we were endowed with at birth needs lots of training to become the [[Mind]] that an adult uses without much concern.<ref>Lisa Feldman Barrett, ''How your Mind was Made'' MIT Technology Review 2021-09 Vol. 123 No 5 pp 8 ff.</ref> In that way it is much like the search tool in your handy internet connected computing device on your desk or in your pocket, a composition of many components in different locations.
-<blockquote>It was believed that aspects of the mind had specific brain locations. .... Your mid is, in fact, an ongoing construction of your brain your body and the surrounding world.  </blockquote>
+<blockquote>It was believed that aspects of the mind had specific brain locations. .... Your mid is, in fact, an ongoing construction of your brain your body and the surrounding world. A second ingredient of your experience is sense data from events inside your body. The third ingredient is past experience. Without this the incoming sense data would be meaningless. </blockquote>
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 <blockquote>Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today. … Our minds keep us in touch with aspects of reality — such as objects, animals, and people — that our ancestors dealt with for millions of years. But as science and technology open up new and hidden worlds, our untutored intuitions may find themselves at sea.</blockquote>
 <blockquote>…we have no mental tools to grasp [these subjects] intuitively. We depend on analogies that press an old mental faculty into service, or on jerry-built mental contraptions that wire together bits and pieces of other faculties. Understanding in these domains is likely to be uneven, shallow, and contaminated by primitive intuitions.</blockquote>
-* New learning has shown that the brain we were endowed with at birth needs lots of training to become the [[Mind]] that an adult uses without much concern.<ref>Lisa Feldman Barrett, ''How your Mind was Made'' MIt Technology Review 2021-09 Vol. 123 No 5 pp 8 ff.</ref>
+* New learning has shown that the brain we were endowed with at birth needs lots of training to become the [[Mind]] that an adult uses without much concern.<ref>Lisa Feldman Barrett, ''How your Mind was Made'' MIT Technology Review 2021-09 Vol. 123 No 5 pp 8 ff.</ref> In that way it is much like the search tool in your handy internet connected computing device on your desk or in your pocket, a composition of many components in different locations.
 <blockquote>It was believed that aspects of the mind had specific brain locations. .... Your mid is, in fact, an ongoing construction of your brain your body and the surrounding world.  </blockquote>

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-* Philosophers and pundits of all types have been working a both the value of a definition and the definition of [[Mind]] for many generations.<ref>Steven Pinker, ''The Blank Slate.'' ISBN 978-0670031511</ref>
+* Philosophers and pundits of all types have been working a both the value of a definition and the definition of [[Mind]] for many generations.<ref>Steven Pinker, ''The Blank Slate.'' 2009-12-01 ISBN 978-0670031511</ref>
 <blockquote>Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today. … Our minds keep us in touch with aspects of reality — such as objects, animals, and people — that our ancestors dealt with for millions of years. But as science and technology open up new and hidden worlds, our untutored intuitions may find themselves at sea.</blockquote>
 <blockquote>…we have no mental tools to grasp [these subjects] intuitively. We depend on analogies that press an old mental faculty into service, or on jerry-built mental contraptions that wire together bits and pieces of other faculties. Understanding in these domains is likely to be uneven, shallow, and contaminated by primitive intuitions.</blockquote>