This, then, is the kind of mentation from which our clearer and more coherent states may be supposed to develop.
No support is given by what we know of this group to the theory which regards subliminal mentation as necessarily a sign of some morbid dissociation of physical elements.
It is true, however, that the range of our subliminal mentation is more extended than the range of our supraliminal.
Such a juxtaposition need not weaken my claim that the inspirations of genius represent a co-operant stream of submerged mentation, fully as developed in its own way as the mentation of which we are conscious above the threshold.
Is this submerged mentation due in any degree or in any manner to the operation of spirits other than Mlle.
In the first place, it should be borne in mind that the dreaming state, though I will not call it the normal form of mentation, is nevertheless the form which our mentation most readily and habitually assumes.
When the subliminal mentation co-operates with and supplements the supraliminal, without changing the apparent phase of personality, we have genius.
In one set, you have an example of automatic mentation in Mathematics, Science and Geography; in the other in Literature and Art.
The most important observations which we have made seem to indicate that it never occurs with that degree of deep inactivity which suggests a complete lack of mentationon the part of the patient.
Then comes the stupor, when all ideas disappear and mentation is reduced or absent.
Finally we must consider the meaning of the deep stupor where nomentation of any kind can be proven and where none but vegetative functions seem to be operating.
Not only do the deep stupors betray no evidence of mentation during the acme of the psychosis, but retrospectively they usually speak of their minds being a blank.
In our last lesson (the Tenth Lesson) we called your attention to the wonderful work of the sub-conscious regions of mentation in the direction of the performance of Intellectual work.
By retraining the lower planes of mentation to their proper work, and by stimulating the higher ones, man may "make himself over.
This form of consciousness, while infinitely above the mentation of the nonconscious plane of "sansation," is like a different world of thought from the consciousness of the highly developed intellectual man of our age and race.
We need not further consider the forms of mentation in the forms of life below the Conscious stage, for that would carry us far from our subject.
Our mentation is largely the result of the great Cosmic Whole upon us.
Many writers have related the process by which the unconscious mentation emerges gradually into the field of consciousness, and the discomfort attending the process.
Great as are the possibilities of this field of mentationin the direction named, they are equaled by the possibilities of building up character by similar methods.
Juan Jimenez is studying mentation of Terran dogs, cats and primates, and Freyan kholphs and Mimir black slinkers.
For the rest of this day, and, I fear, for a good many days to come, we will be concerned exclusively with determining the level of mentation of Fuzzy fuzzy holloway zarathustra.
The mentation pictures we got by encephalography compare very favorably with those of any human child of ten or twelve years old, and so does their learning and puzzle-solving ability.
Now let us imagine a hypothetical race whose entire mentation is conscious.
When we encounter any being whose mentation includes these characteristics, we may know him for a sapient brother.
If we depict sapient mentation as an iceberg, we might depict nonsapient mentation as the sunlight reflected from its surface.
I'd say: a level of mentation qualitatively different from nonsapience in that it includes ability to symbolize ideas and store and transmit them, ability to generalize and ability to form abstract ideas.
When psychology becomes an exact science like physics, we'll be able to calibrate mentation like temperature.
It is true that some of us do not like to think of the lower animals "reasoning," so we use the word "Instinct" to denote the degree of Mentation of the lower animal.
And, that Mind and Mentation is an attribute of Life, and that, consequently, Everything has Mind, and is able to express a degree of Mentation.
The lower forms of animal life exhibit Mentation along the lines of sex-action; feeling and taste.
Mentation everywhere in the animal kingdom, in some degree.
Mentation becoming less marked at each step of the journey.
In fact, but a small part of even the Mentation of Man is performed in the field of consciousness.
A moment's reflection will give you instances of Mentation among the plants.
Then we pass rapidly through the various strata of the lower animal kingdom--from the comparatively high degree of Mentation of the horse, the dog, the elephant, etc.
We shall adopt the word "Appetency" to designate the Mentation in plant-life.
Before leaving the subject of Mentation in plants, the writer is tempted to steal a little more space and tell you that plants do more than receive sensations of light and moisture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mentation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
