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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A supposed substance or quasi-material which by its differentiations constitutes mind.

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Examples

  • A universe of mind-stuff and a civilising force constantly causing change, for change is growth, constantly compelling expression of that change — to conceive it is to conceive infinitude.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • But unless there are at least some mental phenomena that occur absent physical cause, then mind-stuff is obviously a superfluous hypothesis.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • If you subscribe to yogas chitta vritti nirodhah, then loud verbal music increases the fluctuations of the mind-stuff.

    Dr. Ali Binazir: Music in Yoga Class: Harmful or Beneficial? 2010

  • If you subscribe to yogas chitta vritti nirodhah, then loud verbal music increases the fluctuations of the mind-stuff.

    Dr. Ali Binazir: Music in Yoga Class: Harmful or Beneficial? 2010

  • Especially today perhaps, when so many people think the real me is some ghost or mind-stuff or inner self and that we can do what we please with the body and be unaffected ‘inside’, we need to retrieve a proper sense of the place of the body.

    Archive 2008-07-06 papabear 2008

  • For this and other reasons, mind-stuff has mostly fallen out of fashion.

    Two New Books on Consciousness William Harryman 2007

  • For example, if matter-stuff and mind-stuff are of fundamentally different kinds, how are causal relations between them possible?

    Two New Books on Consciousness William Harryman 2007

  • That is the mind-stuff or the “memes” that destroyed American conservatism and transformed the Republican Party into what it is today.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’ 2006

  • He endorsed it in the course of repudiating the ˜mind-stuff theory™, according to which

    The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

  • What the notion of the unicity of intellect seems to have in common with the doctrine of transmigration seems to be the fact that this mystic doctrine too regards the bodily possession of intellect as its individuating factor and the intellectual soul's ability to occupy different bodies at different times as consistent with the neutral general character of the intellect as a non-material mind-stuff.

    Elijah Delmedigo Ross, Jacob 2005

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