Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a mind; capable of thought etc.

Etymologies

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mind +‎ -like

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Examples

  • It would not be 'up to' any impersonal, non-mindlike universe-generating thing whether to generate universes.

    Behe's response to Many Universes Hypothesis 2007

  • One of the reasons Leibnitz was so upset with Newton's law of gravity was because Leibnitz was correctly able to make the chain of inferences that Newton's view implies that matter can move of itself, without the need for any mindlike principle of activity.

    How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • So how does the mindlike Process I interact with the evolving state of the brain?

    ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

  • So how does the mindlike Process I interact with the evolving state of the brain?

    ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

  • So how does the mindlike Process I interact with the evolving state of the brain?

    ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

  • What makes the accomplishment of Deep Blue brainlike rather than mindlike is not the skill of a chess move.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • What makes the accomplishment of Deep Blue brainlike rather than mindlike is not the skill of a chess move.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Mostly because athleticism may or may not involve something mindlike, so while athleticism may potentially explain an aspect of the flagella, it's leaving other questions unanswered.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Mostly because athleticism may or may not involve something mindlike, so while athleticism may potentially explain an aspect of the flagella, it's leaving other questions unanswered.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

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