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Mental Acts And Mental Motions

Jan 19th, 2019
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  1. :: applying a heuristic
  2. :: applying a mental motion
  3. :: appreciating something as a shiba inu does. wow.
  4. :: asking if bad things are good or if good things are bad
  5. :: attempting to decipher something illegible
  6. :: attempting to grasp what's going on
  7. :: cataloging mental motions in order to examine their features
  8. :: categorizing something as familiar
  9. :: categorizing something as foreign
  10. :: completing a recognized pattern
  11. :: coveting
  12. :: deciding to do something
  13. :: deciding to stop doing something
  14. :: distinguishing a memory of a dream from a memory of reality
  15. :: establishing a relationship with a fictional simulated entity
  16. :: facing or overcoming your fears
  17. :: fantasizing
  18. :: finding something inside yourself
  19. :: focusing
  20. :: forgiving someone
  21. :: forming a narrative
  22. :: getting lost in tangents
  23. :: going meta
  24. :: imagining something
  25. :: judging someone's intentions
  26. :: juggling tasks
  27. :: letting go of what feels comfortable or what you're used to
  28. :: listening to your intuitions
  29. :: making a commitment
  30. :: making an idea more abstract
  31. :: making an idea more concrete
  32. :: making your experience personally meaningful
  33. :: missing someone
  34. :: moving between near-construal mode and far-construal mode
  35. :: mulling over imagery or phrases or analogies
  36. :: presentation? representation? re-representation. re-re-representation?
  37. :: projecting your body to the astral plane
  38. :: projecting yourself beyond yourself
  39. :: pushing a thought to speech
  40. :: pushing something out of your mind
  41. :: putting what you know into a meaningful order
  42. :: qualifying a quantity
  43. :: quantifying a quality
  44. :: questioning yourself
  45. :: quieting your mind
  46. :: reflecting on your experience
  47. :: relabelling things
  48. :: releasing something you were holding on to
  49. :: remembering
  50. :: ruminating
  51. :: seeing the functional skeleton of a living space
  52. :: seeing the functional skeleton of your life
  53. :: seeing what you expect rather than what's there
  54. :: settling for what you can get
  55. :: staring wearily into the mental camera
  56. :: stopping your thoughts
  57. :: supposing a claim temporarily for the sake of argument
  58. :: suspending disbelief
  59. :: swapping cause and effect in an explanation
  60. :: taking stock of where you are, what you've done, and what you need to do
  61. :: tearing through the cobweb of non-structure
  62. :: tearing through the cobweb of structure
  63. :: testing whether you are dreaming
  64. :: thinking
  65. :: thinking about thinking
  66. :: tracking a mental motion
  67. :: translating an argument of one ideological camp into the language of another
  68. :: trivializing a thought by deciding that it's dumb
  69. :: trying to clear your mind but it's already as clear as it ought to be and you're making clearing-like mental motions
  70. :: turning a modus ponens into a modus tollens
  71. :: using someone else's voice for your internal monologue (specifically Danny Zuko's voice)
  72. :: visualizing successful performance
  73. :: visualizing the consequences of successful performance
  74. :: wanting more
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