What is a Mind? by uct moocs

The Internet

2015-11-02 01:58:19 UTC

It does resemble something like what a mind is to me-plenty of interconnections and paths...

My mind is my conscious or unconscious reality.

2015-11-02 08:26:11 UTC

Depression

2015-11-02 08:28:27 UTC

Not quite representing the mind but my drswing of someone experiencing depression.

Mind is like the universe. Still unexplored and mysterious. Our mind is vast and infinite in capacity to learn.

hana_mom — 2015-11-02 12:08:16 UTC

An Iceberg

2015-11-02 13:15:03 UTC

We only really know what is above the surface

Reflections and reactions from memory to stimuli

chavavic — 2015-11-02 16:36:46 UTC

Trapped bubbles are our memories, which can be distorted when rising to conscious level. Our thinking process stems from bubble activity, mostly past experiences.

Evolution

2015-11-02 19:47:19 UTC

Cloudy head

2015-11-02 22:45:48 UTC

My representation of my depression. A cloud. A weight. A wave. A spiral.

But I wouldn't be without you.

You are a dark, black comfort blanket. And your part of my brain.

The Mind is Language

2015-11-02 22:52:46 UTC

Everything we will talk about on this course is through language.

2015-11-03 05:08:52 UTC

My mind is a storm of feelings, emotions, knowledge,

a selective memory, and a mysterious power

Cogs

2015-11-03 11:21:47 UTC

This is an image from another course which sums up visually how I sometimes feel about what my mind looks like and is working.

A maze

2015-11-03 11:48:37 UTC

Or do I mean just introspection?

Fractal Mind

2015-11-03 11:56:35 UTC

Great beauty and complexity from apparently simple rules. Interconnectedness of many things. Video of this evolving and changing is magic and conveys the continual but linked change in our minds

The Mind is a Forest...

2015-11-03 14:43:52 UTC

a delicate, yet enduring ecosystem filled with hideous beauty that can both surprise and frighten those who wander about in it.

The universe ...

2015-11-03 19:42:41 UTC

... our galaxy (a form of spiral), connections and networks expanding and contracting, links within links, infinitely reflecting back where we came from, wherever that is.

The power of breath

2015-11-03 19:49:51 UTC

I am not my Mind , I am Everything

2015-11-04 08:54:18 UTC

The mind is made up of various parts.The Chariot is the body. The Horses are the wants, desires , likes, dislikes and all other impulses. The charioteer is the faculty of thought, reason , contemplation and ultimate choice. The Supreme (Self) is conciousness and the spark that awakens us. To define the mind we must understand the manifestation of thought and thus actions. To understand consciousness we must first find the Self behind the Chariot, horses and charioteer.

Once we know who we are, without everything we have, then only can we define the mind.

Mental Landscape

2015-11-04 11:28:54 UTC

My mind is like a landscape composed of building materials thrown my way by life: events, people, experiences, genetics, chance. I do not know how it takes the form it does, but it looks a bit like this:

2015-11-04 11:33:42 UTC

Mental Landscape 2

2015-11-04 11:35:47 UTC

I posted a head with buildings on it to represent how my mind looks. It makes my mind look really ugly, which it is not. So here is another take:

Like the Holy Trinity: I think the mind, conscience, soul and brain are all one.

2015-11-04 12:54:20 UTC

The Infinite mind

2015-11-04 21:38:12 UTC

This was my free flow "mind" last night…

2015-11-05 11:45:48 UTC

…swirling thoughts, feelings, colours, experiences, emotions, both conscious and subconscious. Only the hundreds of thousands of words are missing

Constantly moving

2015-11-05 15:56:06 UTC

I thought about a whirlpool, and then realised that my mind is more like rapids - turbulent is some places, calmer in others, you can't see what's underneath it and it has direction

A black hole

10cooksonh — 2015-11-05 20:45:13 UTC

We may all have our own mind, but we cannot deny that - like a black hole - it is still far beyond human understanding. The mind holds and controls so much more than it may seem on the surface. But you can only really understand a mind if you yourself are in it, just as black holes remain a mystery whilst we can't enter them. Scientifically undeniable but somehow magical.

2015-11-06 11:57:52 UTC

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Infinite Network

2015-11-06 16:09:44 UTC

The mind is a neurophysiological bio- electro-chemical network that engenders and resonates personal and social consciousness... infinitely beyond the sum of it's physical parts

A mass of anxiety

2015-11-08 18:55:41 UTC

ghostdancerinthemachine — 2015-11-09 09:31:55 UTC

ghostdancerinthemachine — 2015-11-09 09:32:04 UTC

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2015-11-09 11:34:33 UTC

Thoughts

2015-11-09 14:22:05 UTC

Conscious thoughts or feelings feel like places I visit or am drawn to. Some are under construction and might fuse with yours..?

The body of the mind or Representations of self

2015-11-09 14:25:21 UTC

City

2015-11-14 04:46:42 UTC

The mind make me think of cities. Complex, inter-connected, ever- moving, slowing sometimes for some re-generation but then gets going again. Some thrive, some are at times not so healthy. Unique characteristics and yet many things in common.

Sides

sinatra1022 — 2015-11-16 18:21:51 UTC

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=phrenology&client=tablet-android-samsung&prmd=isvn&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&fir=fENq6ALjTV5YFM%253A%252Css-KgLE5zO5EmM%252C_%253BbgEhwS0StvDVIM%253A%252Cb6K9-ZOUKhdq2M%252C_%253BcDRDlCSCW3tNWM%253A%252Cs6D57WNeM-kb-M%252C_%253B6sv94o36tyIs8M%253A%252CTfcT-oJL3F8BGM%252C_%253B3w43XRr8tN5HcM%253A%252CoqLQRGNVmJSIJM%252C_%253B6AZGdaS76xzg1M%253A%252Ce-J55ncolIzgoM%252C_%253Bdnj2GmJRgfJiwM%253A%252Cy90MI7KZib792M%252C_%253Bprswl7VnH6M96M%253A%252CyaPVgXAw37aypM%252C_%253BNrQn0o7aISq_lM%253A%252Cp_6YOqb5_6ZnmM%252C_%253BuQjvaOTyGNarRM%253A%252C_3cYdknfNQKa3M%252C_&sa=X&ved=0CEUQsARqFQoTCOqk4t_0mMkCFYM9GgodiwsJmQ&biw=1280&bih=800&usg=nD9l0ukiQ6y9SLNEr5F2TEvrgmU%3D#imgrc=dnj2GmJRgfJiwM%3A&usg=nD9l0ukiQ6y9SLNEr5F2TEvrgmU%3D

2015-11-18 02:24:33 UTC

Phrenology heads

2015-11-18 02:27:26 UTC

Mind working

monikaraceli — 2015-11-20 02:59:42 UTC

My mind

Mind working

monikaraceli — 2015-11-20 03:02:10 UTC

My mind

Mind

2016-04-18 10:16:45 UTC

2016-04-18 10:48:22 UTC

Holding your mind in your hand.

Jungian Psychological Types

truthorconsequences — 2016-04-18 13:41:47 UTC

We each function based on superior functions and inferior functions which is some variation of the image. Search Google for lots more details.

Jung Cosmology

truthorconsequences — 2016-04-18 13:45:19 UTC

Not exactly the way I experienced it but a decent approximation

Is the Mind just in the brain

2016-04-19 06:58:59 UTC

Autism Brain

truthorconsequences — 2016-04-19 08:33:59 UTC

Illusion of free will created by Autism Inside Out

Fitness and brain

2016-04-19 18:40:02 UTC

fergus4 — 2016-04-20 11:48:58 UTC

2016-04-20 20:38:30 UTC

Magritte

Manic mind

hungrytiger — 2016-04-20 21:11:12 UTC

A furious fire.
Connections created, destroyed;
Conciousness expanding;
Before the inevitable fall.

Very Crowded Mental Landscape

2016-04-20 21:18:59 UTC

There is simply too much crowded into the space of my mind. And it is not organised any more - got out of control. I am trying to reduce the stuff, but am simply continuing to collect more and more.

Layer upon Layer upon Layer of Mind

2016-04-20 21:23:21 UTC

I comprehend my mind as a complex mixture of emotion, knowledge, ideas, concepts, plans, learning, anticipation, and more. Over the years some of these 'essences' become solidified into 'beliefs' perhaps, and thence into layers of knowing and believing about life.

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juliensierrap — 2016-04-21 02:12:27 UTC

Mind is memories

2016-04-21 14:22:33 UTC

We are developing our mind (perception/ desires/fears, wishes..) throughout our life, some events have larger, some lower impact, but they all do We might not remember it, but they are still stored somewhere. Every action/event is shaping our perception and mind.

2016-04-21 18:41:04 UTC

The mind is like a mirror...

2016-04-22 05:17:46 UTC

The mind is like a mirror, a vast space of sky with thoughts like clouds moving through it. It can flow like a river or be still as a lake on a calm day. It can be as stable as the mountains or as free as the breeze.

2016-04-22 10:48:41 UTC

2016-04-22 10:49:36 UTC

The Tree of Life by Klimt seems a good representation of the mind - rooted in the self but expanding ever outwards in complexity.

The connected mind

2016-04-22 18:34:11 UTC

This is an artwork my husband made years ago. It represents the brain, but I think it represents the mind well too, in showing its interconnectedness, the information passing from place to place, forming a network, which for me is a key aspect of the mind. Interesting that it uses computer parts when we will be discussing the idea of computers having minds in this course!

2016-04-23 14:13:09 UTC

Mind by Brigida, digital art and paint

2016-04-23 20:59:18 UTC

I did this to describe mind from an artistic perspective using various medias.

2016-04-24 08:57:11 UTC

Three worlds by Escher, 1955.

The Landscape of a Mind

2016-04-24 13:57:16 UTC

The mind has no beginning and no end, so I created a circular frame to denote the whole mind.

I used only one other symbol, and that is the infinity symbol in the middle distance in the central part of the image. This symbolis an image of the unconscious mind.

The conscious mind is represented as a vast landscape - structured, complex and tangible; and part of our physical world, yet not limited anatomically to the brain. We are right here all the time, and can see this view. On this picture plane, everything seeds, grows and develops and communicates.

The subconscious mind is also limitless, vast and complex, yet at times 'hidden' from our view. It is housed beneath the surface of this mindscape. Its entrance is accessed right in the foreground of our image. As in mythology, it is underground.

There is much, much more ...
but this is just the view visible from my eye.

kaleidoscope eyes as from that old Beatles song.

2016-04-24 15:48:01 UTC

In dreams our immagination runs wild. When we awake in our vivid dreams we have no bounds to our reality , our fears and feelings are untethered, our consciousness is non local we are aware of everything outside the stream.

2016-04-24 15:56:24 UTC

Smcglinchey

2016-04-24 16:09:18 UTC

The mind as a kaleidoscope

2016-04-24 16:11:44 UTC

The Persistence of Memory

2016-04-24 19:32:44 UTC

Mind in full action

2016-04-24 21:00:45 UTC

2016-04-25 01:54:54 UTC

Image of the a mind
I had to go away and let the thought of "what does a mind look like" before I could begin to look for images. This is getting close to my impression

2016-04-25 13:25:57 UTC

2016-04-25 13:26:16 UTC

Origins

2016-04-26 06:21:14 UTC

This a painting I made in an attempt to understand the connection between our biological origins, the simultaneous origination of consciousness and the existence of the soul.

My Mind...

2016-04-27 11:07:53 UTC

Mind is a person's ability to think and reason. Ref: http://www.wikihow.com/Reason
...that's the only place where I do and decide...

A Lost Mind

hollie_88 — 2016-04-27 12:10:43 UTC

My own work - A depiction of losing your mind; your mind becoming an enemy.

The mind is an emergent property of the nervous system, subject to chemistry.

2016-05-02 17:05:20 UTC

Minds at Work

drcherbert — 2016-05-04 17:03:59 UTC

I asked Latin American teachers to create a metaphor for their minds at work.

Brain and Mind

2016-05-07 10:27:34 UTC

by Tylir Wisdom
Mind is the functioning, living human brain http://fineartamerica.com/featured/brain-and-mind-tylir-wisdom.html

Bearing - inner active posture

2016-05-09 15:38:08 UTC

Experience of wholeness of thinking, feeling and will. I hold, guide, let go, receive. Gemüt.

Enclosure

2016-07-28 16:10:53 UTC

2016-11-01 03:54:55 UTC

I call the photo 'A Ripple In Time' - the mind as a neural network reacting to the stimulus of an insect creating waves in the background.

Hologram and Fractal Beauty

elspethcr — 2016-11-02 02:07:42 UTC

I googled fractal+hologram and found a site called The Still Mind with a Creative Commons license and a lot of beautiful pictures

Seal of Solomon

bushy — 2016-11-02 14:15:00 UTC

Understand the six fundamental principals of the universe and the universe will unveil itself to you. It consists of two interlaced triangles of which one represents Time Space and Energy and the other the Present Past and Future.
This holds true at every level of the universe ranging al the way from the micro to the macro. Bushy Van Eck
bushy@transparencing.com
www.transparencing.com

From a cafe in Sweden...Bird minds. And people say 'bird brained' as a jibe.

2016-11-03 00:04:40 UTC

The Origin of all sentient beings?

2016-11-03 06:53:05 UTC

Sometimes we forget.

The Dreaming

bianca_velder — 2016-11-03 08:28:22 UTC

aboriginal dot paintings resonate with me when I try to visualise my mind. Ieverybdot means something, a Dreaming, a story.

Mind & Beyond

2016-11-03 13:05:22 UTC

I like this image because it suggests that mind is individual yet it expands beyond that physical boundary. Here's the site where I found the image: https://ozziethinker.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/denial-and-apathy-will-restrict-and-ultimately-halt-human-ascension/

2016-11-03 13:48:04 UTC

What is a Mind Depiction

mstinawarner — 2016-11-03 19:49:17 UTC

The tear on the face represents feelings & thoughts.
The tree represents the Tree of the World, supporting or holding up the cosmos & providing a link between the heavens, earth & underworld.
The universe represents Panpsychism, that everything in the universe might be conscious.

The Mind and Space

erika_triebstein — 2016-11-03 22:20:25 UTC

I propose that the mind is best "seen" in our architecture and the spaces where we exist. This image comes from a children's book by Evelyn Scott, The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter. I poured over these illustrations as a child because each bear had his or her own hollow tree, designed according to the individual. I believe this goes beyond personality into cultural mind in our city- (or country-) scapes.

A mistery of a mind

zafante — 2016-11-04 18:15:28 UTC

I think that mind is like a crystal cave. If it's dark you don't see its treasures. But if you have a right tool to investigate it, you will find a lot of remarkable things.

2016-11-05 23:18:11 UTC

noelenebc — 2016-11-06 18:12:49 UTC

My image of "Energy" (oils) represents for me the "spark" or "light' with assorted colours radiating from the darkness of bottom right.
Noelene

2016-11-06 19:29:34 UTC

My mind...

Two birds (one eating the fruit, the other watching)

2016-11-07 07:51:34 UTC

Two birds, close yoked companions,
Both clasp the self-same tree;
One eats of the sweet fruit,
The other looks on without eating.
(Rig Veda, ancient Hindu scriptures)

What is a mind?

emcintyre1 — 2016-11-07 10:06:39 UTC

The mind has to be interconnected with a being, one cannot exist without the other. The beams of light coming from the environment inform the mind of new experiences and knowledge.

..like a(n unending) book, the thought (the words) come later, colors (emotions) are already there, facing a possible meaning...

2016-11-07 20:01:06 UTC

2016-11-08 12:08:45 UTC

The mind is multifaceted and multilocational

2016-11-09 12:35:30 UTC

My mind, like a castle

This is from the Book of Kells and my mind often feels like this.

2016-11-09 13:32:23 UTC

A Perfect Circle

2016-11-14 12:26:30 UTC

A mind is a perfect circle if I would to describe the mind visually. The mind symbolize the most perfect and complex feature of human that may seem simple but the mind is what that actually complete the human as a whole and differ us from anything else.

Look mind as a free edge

natidc1703 — 2016-11-16 05:51:13 UTC

For me the work of Fenella Elms reflect a build of flowing textures, as she said with out edge ("Free Edge"), similar as how mind works and how it couldn't explain it in a whole definition. Because if you see the work of this artist, you will feel the flowing of a complex system of interaction such of how mind will look like for me.

A Hidden Self

2016-11-16 14:08:08 UTC

The works of David Ho present to me a very symbolic representations, portraying psychologically profound truth about human's inner nature. Original title is 'Looking inward'.

Escaping

2016-11-16 14:16:38 UTC

David Ho - part II

Contemplation

2016-11-16 14:24:32 UTC

David Ho - part III

My Child's Mind

2016-11-16 19:43:33 UTC

Rationale, Rational, Irrational - Mind

2016-11-18 00:38:38 UTC

Inspired by the question 'What is a mind?' I sat down this evening to explore it without over thinking the process of the image making.

Infinite Doors

mizz_bassett — 2016-11-26 17:20:46 UTC

I see the mind as a infinite number of doors to be opened - and closed... leading in different directions, with an infinite number of connections.

La energía que no se detiene

2016-12-19 22:56:09 UTC

La mente

Representation and creation

2017-01-22 23:12:38 UTC

Complexity from simplicity

l_iambradley0 — 2017-08-16 17:06:40 UTC

l_iambradley0 — 2017-08-16 17:09:30 UTC

The Mind

mashiur_1001 — 2017-08-21 18:34:30 UTC

2017-08-23 07:21:53 UTC

Mind as vast as universe with innumerable galaxies and planets and asteroids!! So much is there to explore, so much is there which is yet unseen and inexperienced!!

The mind is like a house with many rooms, all with different purposes, some closed off and dusty, others yet to be discovered.

2017-08-23 19:24:01 UTC

2017-08-24 23:32:55 UTC

La mente y el tiempo, no existe el uno sin el otro

can one have a thorough knowledge of the of the mind and the way by which it controlled to determine its nature and behavior? it is as difficult or impossible to understand or explain as life itself.

zhanna8 — 2017-08-25 07:31:54 UTC

plasma ball

caz_black — 2017-08-25 18:58:43 UTC

The Mind

2017-08-26 12:52:24 UTC

Beneath the Surface

2017-08-26 14:52:57 UTC

mysterious, flowing, connected....
Photo: cliffbriggie.com

pneumaˈnjuːmə/noun. PHILOSOPHY ~(in Stoic thought).The vital spirit, soul, or creative force of a person.

2017-08-27 23:18:20 UTC

This is my picture which represents the 'Mind', which comes from the word 'Breath' used in the Course Introduction.

2017-08-28 09:21:22 UTC

The meaning of time

2017-09-02 12:55:09 UTC

ivana_odalovic — 2017-09-02 16:46:59 UTC

what I see whenever I close my eyes

My mind

2017-09-05 16:16:58 UTC

Opaque, translucent, brief, ephemeral, mystically formed, mysteriously made, beyond mundane affairs yet constant within them....

2017-09-08 01:07:55 UTC

The mind is like a labyrinth

blakechantelle18 — 2017-09-18 10:33:10 UTC

A form creating itself

2017-10-06 23:26:05 UTC

A mind becomes inevitable by the very idea of it -- once the idea becomes possible, its realization is forced into the world.

Seven basic systems of emotion

blakechantelle18 — 2017-10-16 10:42:37 UTC

2017-11-06 21:54:40 UTC

process of creating evolving a language of expression

Crowdy head

hmoleary — 2017-11-07 07:42:11 UTC

What lies beneath?

What is a Mind?

2017-11-08 19:39:50 UTC

This piece is my "Self Porait of Creation" I did not plan anything out on this piece and just allowed myself to "flow" with the stillness of my mind. When I close my eyes, or even as I am listening to someone speak, I see images in my mind's eye that correspond with what I am hearing/feeling. This painting represents my mind.
www.artbyjulieyoung.com

"Projections of Self Reflections"

2017-11-08 19:47:31 UTC

Although it is hard to imagine what a mind would look like, I feel as though it could be depicted as a translucent ethereic body. I painted the ethereal body behind the muscle layer of our body because I feel as though with out our mind/consciousness we wouldn't be able to fully experience life in these bodies.
www.artbyjulieyoung.com

many of these types of work to me represent the mind and itworkings

2017-11-12 15:35:21 UTC

Mind d

2017-11-12 19:21:03 UTC

Mind in a Jar

2017-11-12 19:21:04 UTC

Mind Destination

2017-11-13 22:00:38 UTC

I traverse my mind, construct my mind. It is a realm of absolute potential for exploration and creation simultaneously. (Pic to represent this is by Antonia Mora).

The mind is a Network

2017-11-21 16:38:44 UTC

2017-12-01 16:29:42 UTC

The Big Bang might represent our mind...

2017-12-11 01:24:09 UTC

The physicians' latest conception of the Big Bang (a quantic intrication of two blackholes) is coherent, in its timely suddenty, with Kleinian objects' introjection (our mind's birth, this mind including our capacity to think scientifically). It is coherent, in its space representation, with Freudian's möbius strip mind structure and with latest M. Solms' discovery that brainstem is the main location of consciousness ... further more, the universe "dark matter" might represent our "unconscious" mind...

2018-01-09 22:21:03 UTC

To me the mind is best represented by a fractal design image such as this one... infinitely complex, never ending, dynamic.

2018-01-27 18:09:52 UTC

*Best watched in full screen

Mind as Faculty of Consciousness

2018-09-19 11:03:04 UTC

The hereunder picture best describes my understanding of the mystery of the mind.

2018-09-19 18:58:16 UTC

Alive

messyknowledge — 2018-09-20 17:59:43 UTC

Van Gogh's Olive trees resonate with my understanding of mind. Mind is active always, once inactive it is pronounced dead. There are many components of mind and all are intertwined like the branches of these olive trees. The state of mind changes always; sometimes calm and sometimes chaos. It is a beautiful mind!

coolrhythmking — 2018-09-20 22:02:04 UTC

The Mind is a Web of Intentionality to which meaning accrues.

@Edgar « Saner » Flores

2018-10-22 14:47:52 UTC

I think that the mind is the hidden infinite possibilities inside ourselves, once we've learn to 'meta-think' about our own functioning.

Mind like a maze

2018-11-29 19:10:42 UTC

I think this image is a good representation of "What is a mind" The mind is a very complex thing. It reminds me of a maze at times. There's many twists and turns. Never ending possibilities, always entertaining.

The mind is a great mystery because is very difficult express in a imagen. I consider the mind is a blackboard in white.

2019-02-26 11:01:51 UTC

Elizabeth Karlinsky

2019-03-26 07:16:09 UTC

this photo is from an exhibition of women's art 1900-1945 currently on at Belvedere in Vienna. I chose it because for me it depicts dynamic ongoing connections and I want to say mind is body, or vice versa.

The mess

elianev — 2019-04-05 17:43:20 UTC

The mind is a kind of nowhere way, wich we choose one option and from there, another thousand ways will upload. The beauty on it is to cross those map with nowhere to go, leaving and sharing good moments to take away with you when your mind were gone.

So absorbed in dialog, she doesn't notice the manifestation of a vast, non-human being...

davidsdouglass1 — 2019-05-02 21:17:17 UTC

The mind is around us

beckmanncandice — 2019-05-06 12:18:24 UTC

It goes beyond the confines of our skull. I imagine it in a similar way to how people describe an aura surrounding people.

The mind is everything

carol60 — 2019-06-03 20:15:07 UTC

Sit and Think

carol60 — 2019-06-03 20:15:56 UTC

The mind travels

carol60 — 2019-06-03 20:18:57 UTC

Inside a Head

carol60 — 2019-06-03 20:21:16 UTC

Meditate for the Mind

2019-06-05 14:03:34 UTC

Is the mind a Black board in white? Meditation may change your thought's and Feelings

nicolajoyhubbard — 2019-08-06 07:20:57 UTC

It's embarrassing that this is the image that comes to my mind.

depiction of a mind

2019-08-07 09:17:27 UTC

I'm not giving up on you.

trevoradavies1 — 2019-08-10 20:48:20 UTC

Reality is so much worse than I can ever create in my imagination.

2019-08-12 07:46:22 UTC

I like the concept, "A window to another world" It represents each of us having varying perspectives and experiences, hence in our "own world" . The interactions with others are "other worlds" and it gives us new meanings, validations or an opportunity to inspire and uplift.

2019-08-13 05:41:13 UTC

The mind's eye

2019-08-13 19:45:13 UTC

Live fMRI image of a subconscious emotion

2019-08-14 12:15:31 UTC

With modern scanning techniques we can see live images of activity in regions of the brain. I think these are convincing depictions of mind in action.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6318662_Imaging_the_Addicted_Human_Brain

2019-08-25 14:40:15 UTC

River of neurons

continuity and fluidity

2019-09-03 03:07:06 UTC

This is a book I created representing a piece of my memory

Mind/brain and body/gut

2019-09-15 08:43:46 UTC

My mind tells me to eat something when it want to dampen painful thoughts. Not sure how this works - it definitly distracts thoughts/feelings. I feel that having another and another croissant would help. If I wait the feelings subside anyway when I have other thoughts and get involved with something else.
There is also gut-feeling which is a non-verbal sense of something - a body-sense.
Image from Gut Feelings: Using the mind to treat the body in IBS

04 September 2017 | by Kimberley WIlson BPS

2019-11-13 17:27:01 UTC

The normal thinking bubble on ms word is how I see the mind, I thought that was how most people depicted the mind hence app images of think clouds 😊

Pippa Skotnes "Breath"

chrisgoldfrap — 2019-11-14 11:00:05 UTC

I suggest Skotnes incorporated the pattern formed by these cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus into her installation because it's a stage in the visual pathway in the brain, thus part of a visual representation of the mind.

Chris G

MAGRITTE

2019-11-15 18:18:48 UTC

Magritte always set me on a wrong foot, helping me to' feel' my mind. and looking at this picture it depicts also the rising out of the primordial soup.

2020-01-04 23:33:46 UTC

mind doesn't judge

A doodle from my mind

2020-02-17 03:23:26 UTC

This doodle came from my mind & reminds me of minds for a couple of reasons... when I close my eyes, my mind likes to create images similar to this. I also think of the mind as a thing which has thoughts that can be linear, or connect & go off in different tangents, etc... similar to how some of the lines in the doodle can form different pictures or connect depending how you look at them.I think a mind is something that see's things differently depending how you look at them.

2020-02-17 09:51:51 UTC

People minds are unique and different.

2020-02-24 06:02:29 UTC

People's minds varies. It all depends on there way of thinking and their actions.

selamilume — 2020-03-08 14:38:30 UTC

Mind - how will it settle?

Sources of each picture (Google image)
Mind (physicalism versus otherwise:"scientists have tried to define the mind is the conscious product of brain (: is the physical substance- firing neurons) activity)- in terms of my subjective experience, I still see mind as something nonphysical which is a complex emotional and thought patterns defining one self, and according to some sources,

" “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body" .

Whereas when I attend philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, I get stuck, and ask am I trying to make it mysterious? Am I in illusion? I am trapped into these controversial philosophical disputes.
Anyway, these thought and emotional patterns may either originate from some speciality areas in the brain, according to Daniel Dennett or some others non physical sources beyond the brain or the body. Whichever it is, in my view, it doesn’t change the fact that some feelings and thoughts patterns from existing dynamically even if why and how still remain a question.

Selamyhun

I love this movie!

2020-03-18 03:35:14 UTC

Inside out is a kids movie, however, everytime I watch it I feel more intrigued about our mind and how it works.

World is as big or small, as your mind

2020-03-20 11:45:19 UTC

Does a baby has a mind? Does an ant has a mind? Mind is “born” with consciousness and awareness of oneself, and evolves with experiences in relation to the world. Our world is as big or small as we see it, heave read about it and learnt. For one it’s a village, for someone else it’s the entire world, knowledge of our galaxy and so on. Mind is as limitless as universe itself..and beyond! To the scale of multiverse..

The shape of time- for me this image represents Anomie when your past was a lie and your memories are fractured lies

2020-03-29 15:11:38 UTC

This image represents a mind in turmoil and temporal confusion.

Underwater

2020-04-06 14:15:59 UTC

I see the mind, as if you're underwater. You can't swim but you're floating around and waiting for something to happen. Something to change or a thought to develop into a feeling. You can see the water moving around but are unable to make a chance. It seems to be out of your control. Yet you feel at peace, you're not scared but just a little unsure...

the mind is the neural communication

2020-04-11 14:05:59 UTC

Mind & soul

alessandradovalle — 2020-04-19 02:59:37 UTC

For me Mind is a combination of our way of thinking and our soul that is the energy that make it work and go deeper. The result is our thoughts and vision of the world

The Mind as a puzzle of life

2020-04-19 05:21:25 UTC

This is a really tough one. I see the mind as 2 containers, one full of puzzle pieces, the other empty and that's the space the player will use to put these pieces together. The older you become, the better the player gets.

Constellation

2020-04-27 15:35:38 UTC

Music and breath I breathe and play music. When I play music I form mental images according to what and how I feel at that point in time. The same piece/passage of music may conjure a different image each time. Breathing at the right moment is essential. It is like speaking, there are pauses and there are endings. The image formed is interpreted in the music I produced through my instrument.

2020-05-03 15:04:28 UTC

The mind is free and wanders

2020-05-04 21:09:47 UTC

Tree Roots by Vincent Van Gough

2020-05-06 09:03:24 UTC

Like a mind, a dynamic, rich 'network'. Hidden, unseen but a conduit for the source of life that pushes through the hidden depths to engage with world above the 'surface'.

Mind mess.

2020-06-01 16:50:38 UTC

Our minds are a powerful thing.
Credit- https://www.google.com/search?q=the+mind+pathways&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiaqOPhiOHpAhWMna0KHYOtBNkQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=the+mind+pathways&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzICCCk6BQghEKsCUMFFWM1JYN1MaABwAHgAgAFXiAHUApIBATWYAQCgAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=FTHVXtrJKIy7tgWD25LIDQ&bih=714&biw=414&client=safari&prmd=ivsn&hl=en-us#imgrc=moUNXF4YyqcCZM

The Mind

2020-06-05 01:01:09 UTC

I think a mind is the part of the brain that is able to feel emotions. A mind is able to imagine things and engage in ideas

2020-06-06 03:30:38 UTC

Mind:
''Think,my mind has two parts one is locked up and other side is so colourful and she has a wing.''
#Esmat Eti.

What The Mind is to me

2020-06-11 09:04:17 UTC

The Mind

2020-06-11 09:05:14 UTC

In my opinion, I imagine the mind to be similar to the soul. A very present, real, but subjective concept. Something which decides the way we behave, but also is influenced by other stimuli. The mind is a thing without which we wouldn't be individuals, but an autonomic, non-feeling, collective being.

Mind

2020-06-11 09:11:12 UTC

The essence of self - every single particle of you interacting with each other but not in a tangible 'whole'

Mind: theism & schema

2020-06-11 09:11:52 UTC

Mind AS body

2020-07-06 13:56:05 UTC

2020-07-09 22:46:41 UTC

The mind is a form of perception of matter itself

2020-07-09 22:52:31 UTC

The Mind

2020-08-05 00:56:07 UTC

For me, this picture is a good representation of the mind as it includes the different elements I associate with the mind: a person's head/brain, space and energy. In my opinion, the mind is kind of a mental force that goes beyond our bodies...

2020-08-06 06:08:06 UTC

Kaleidoscope image for me helps to describe what I imagine are the many stimuli that may produce what we experience as they mind’

Mindpath

2020-08-07 17:57:58 UTC

In the Dune novels, Frank Herbert describes how the vision of prophets see a best path for their view of humanity stretching into the future, avoiding vast threats and cul-de-sacs. Without prophecy, our own minds have a much-restricted ability to plot the good path into the future for ourselves. If psychology is essentially the study of comparisons and the minds is a decision-making engine, this sketch of a pathfinder amidst uncertainty is intended to convey the Mind as Navigator. Tavis Reddick.

Doors of perception

2020-08-09 07:54:30 UTC

Doors to self and life allowing as entry to discover what is means to be human

The mind is the essence

2020-08-10 11:26:30 UTC

Infinite posssibilites, light & dark

Fliptop Head

2020-08-11 05:45:27 UTC

This was a depiction of how I was trying to make sense of my brain after being diagnosed with DID. Lots of internal confusion and the goodies (flying away) and the baddies being booted out of my head.

The mind...

2020-08-13 21:40:22 UTC

https://media.giphy.com/media/1oC7ENXZ3GOHKS0lEA/giphy.gif

I searched a while this picture convinced me most.

dimitrits2 — 2020-08-16 13:32:04 UTC

What is a mind...

A mind is an invisible light

2020-08-20 05:36:08 UTC

It's difficult for me to visualize my mind. It's rather more of a feeling to me and I feel like I can explain it better that way. My mind feels like an invisible light or cloud that gently surrounds my head. It's exudes a sense of warmth. (This picture is highkey scary/dark BUT I feel like it represents what I tried to explain the best)

2020-09-05 20:58:30 UTC

‘Here I am ‘
This is my painting of my reflection in a mirror.
I stood there and decided to paint this. Lots of stories
came into my mind as I did it, seeming to come from my unconscious,
but they are there in the painting. For example I had to go into the darkness
through the open door behind my head for the painting which followed.

2020-09-05 21:00:42 UTC

Here I am

Colour, space, openness

2020-09-08 17:29:04 UTC

I hard image to imagine..but maybe space seems to work, the mind with and openness but yet many centres of focus..colour, light, dark..

2020-09-20 08:36:29 UTC

2020-09-20 08:43:51 UTC

And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about the soul. Say, "The soul is of the affair of my Lord. And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little."
(17: 85)

The map of the mind by Roberto Assagioli

2020-09-24 12:25:28 UTC

In my opinion the most clear and

all-encompassing map of the mind

Map of the mind by Roberto Assagioli

2020-09-24 12:28:09 UTC

2020-09-24 14:48:36 UTC

Covid coloured pencil doodle. Maggie Tindale

2020-09-24 14:49:21 UTC

Covid Embroidery following mind doodle. Maggie Tindale

MindBody

2020-09-26 05:57:03 UTC

John Blines

I had a bright idea

2020-10-14 17:08:21 UTC

Rare photograph mind in action

2020-10-15 12:41:45 UTC

2020-11-11 10:50:44 UTC

Minds perception leads to thoughts

A facet of the mind

bud3r7up75 — 2020-11-12 13:16:35 UTC

Magritte Painting: The False Mirror

bud3r7up75 — 2020-11-12 13:20:50 UTC

Stretching the Mind:
Dali - La persistencia de la memoria

My

2020-11-14 04:35:51 UTC

The art of mind

2020-11-20 03:02:18 UTC

The Art of Mental Healing By Dagny zenovia

A mishmash of our experiences, relationships + environment- unique to everyone

2020-12-10 10:59:23 UTC

https://www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/2421/Imagery+of+the+Mind%3A+Art+by+Hisham+Akira+Baroocha

A picture that represents my impression of a mind ...

2020-12-15 17:35:56 UTC

To me, a mind is like this printers tray. A compartmentalised, but connected collections of objects (memories, stuff we learn, experiences, emotions, stuff our eye saw and out brains recorded when we didn't even notice, etc) that forms the greater 'system' of our minds.

Photograph by Tim Gainey / Alamy on National Geographic.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal drawing

2020-12-28 17:52:11 UTC

The brain and mind

2020-12-30 18:25:16 UTC

From the Bethlem Museum in London, Exhibition; Art beyond Bedlam

2021-01-03 12:48:51 UTC

Welcome to my psychosis

Also from The Bethlem Museum in London, Exhibition; Art beyond Bedlam

2021-01-03 12:56:29 UTC

dark matter

2021-01-04 18:59:15 UTC

our brain could be a small representation of the universe itself?

2021-01-04 18:59:26 UTC

The essence of the mind

2021-01-11 16:30:13 UTC

is creativeness, producing something new, unique, which had no existence before. Who better than Ludwig van Beethoven?

Simple Wisdom

2021-01-18 13:17:21 UTC

I find this an optimistic view of the mind https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/38416329451_ab979ed602_o.jpg

Universe

2021-01-26 15:09:27 UTC

The Universe and The Mind

2021-02-06 05:12:42 UTC

This is a logarithmic view of the Universe with the Sun in its centre. It also looks like an eye.
Our minds are not contained in our brains. They expand well beyond our physical form, perhaps through the whole Universe.
Image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_of_Earth

2021-04-01 18:59:42 UTC

2021-04-02 13:48:36 UTC

Brumm brumm!

2021-04-03 21:23:06 UTC

what is it? what does it do? why?

MelNieu — 2021-04-07 18:24:25 UTC

what I see, what I question, what I desire, what I hope for, what I dislike, what I fear, what I saw, what was answered, what I have loved, what I have lost, what I am confident about, what I changed, what I chose, what I did.

Soul

2021-04-11 03:46:51 UTC

From Disney's movie Soul.

The Seer

2021-04-18 19:33:35 UTC

Yoga is the cessasion of the modifications of the (thinking) mind,
then the Seer appears.
- Patanjali Yoga sutras

When explaining his meditation method, Wim Hof frequently quotes the above passage from Patanjali's Yoga sutras suggesting, just like Mark Solms, that the source of consciousness (the Seer) is beyond the complexities of the thinking mind (cortex), somewhere deep down in the limbic system / brain stem.

Meditation traditions also frequently liken the mind to a lake where the surface ripples with thoughts and emotions while the depth harbours undisturbed stillness and peace.

I saw this sign in the subway of Rennes, where I went for three months on an Erasmus scholarship at the Art School, so I reproduced it as a little sculpture. The sign in the subway is to signal handicaped people, but aren't we, in some way, all handicaped then? ... because we all have our unconscious minds however coherent we would behave to one another.

2021-05-14 18:15:52 UTC

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2021-05-26 10:21:49 UTC

A vessel which contains infinity thought, emotions and feelings

2021-06-01 14:15:20 UTC

2021-06-20 17:33:49 UTC

The Brain and the Mind

zawyehtike146 — 2021-07-02 07:19:58 UTC

From BYJU (2021) Biology Class.
Mind is mental & shapeless which emerged from the shaped physical brain [from the body].
Important Difference Between Brain and Mind (byjus.com)

Explanatory Gaps

2021-07-05 02:16:54 UTC

Acrylic on canvas, 24x18 inches, 2021
by Andrew Werth (https://www.andrewwerth.com/)

2021-08-25 11:18:41 UTC

The mind is many things but like feet, it keeps me going on my life path.

Thoughts flying away. This is an effective representation of depression IMO. Thoughts are dark and the person seems to disappear as a result. The mind has the power to make us act in certain ways which are more normally in our own best interests.

2021-08-31 07:31:03 UTC

subconscious

2021-10-29 11:20:14 UTC

contaminated

2021-10-29 11:28:37 UTC

Surreal ceramics by Johnson Tsang, illustrates to me how our minds are influenced and shaped by external forces. How we are a product of our conscious motivations, our subconscious drives, and external forces.

2021-11-04 00:04:20 UTC

The mind is just another senses like the 5 senses but is capable of thoughts and seeing the illusion of reality. Also it is an Observing conciousness that witnessess the other 6 senses

Much more than words

2021-11-23 19:48:42 UTC

The mind is a crazy maze full of background noise

2021-11-28 05:49:27 UTC

This is, for me, a good representation of the mind. The mind being the round dot at the center. Aware of itself, able to self recognize as an individual, but part of a whole that is also circular. The space between the center to the edge, allows lines to be drawn and measured with exact values, while the outer circle defining the boundaries of space, is not capable of absolute concreteness

My understanding of a "Mind"

2021-12-05 14:48:53 UTC

For me a mind is like a television with lots of different channels. Like television is controlled by a remote a mind is also controlled. And just like the television programs the mind is also full of dramas. The mind has different subjects playing different roles- positive & negative. So as it is impossible to keep playing only one channel all the time on a television it's impossible for the mind too, being the same all the time.

The Mind

2021-12-06 13:07:27 UTC

I think the mind is the 6th sense which is awareness. Awareness of ourselves and the moment we live in.

2022-02-28 01:26:48 UTC

The mind is a complex machine.
We look, we hear, we touch, we Smell, we act, we decide, we create and we destroy . All that we do is dependable on our brain our perception and prediction and what we do. Everyone has a mind to fine tune and weather you are knowledgeable or have a disability we are all guided by our brains

Complex Mind

gillmckenzie10 — 2022-03-02 04:41:49 UTC

Mirror

zhazirakarabala — 2022-03-02 11:55:42 UTC

When I think of the mind, I think of the mirror of the consciousness and what we perceive as reality and what we see reflected and processed by our mind. I think that the mind is often just the reflection of our culture, our experiences, our knowledge. Too often we make assumptions and rely too much upon our past experiences and limit our mind to familiar (i.e. safe).

2022-03-03 11:04:22 UTC

Mind is the vast space in which we experience everything, from vision, sound, touch to thoughts and feelings. During my meditation practice I have been trying to observe the nature of mind and the "restive state" that doesn't seem very restive. Thoughts and feelings in a constant dance.

layers of thoughts, spiritual

grottob — 2022-03-03 19:50:04 UTC

Something I did with my students, some years ago. https://www.instagram.com/beatricecroce/

Library

shelleyomoore03 — 2022-03-07 13:47:22 UTC

The mind is like a colossal library storing all our experiences, thoughts and feelings from the day we're born until the day we leave this world. Some chapters of books will be revisited in our lifetime and others will never be reopened again but will forever be a chapter of who we are.

My mind is a bomb of thoughts; shaped by the outside world until I learn how to detonate it myself in order to own it and control it. It harbours the conscious and unconscious -a storage room.What am I WITHOUT MY MIND?-a sponge.

2022-03-26 17:57:39 UTC

My mind is my conscious or unconscious reality.

Shadows of the Mind

lyndaloughnane — 2022-05-18 15:52:49 UTC

While exploring the workings of light and visual perception, I once took a photo of a burning candle and its shadow. I was fascinated by the fact that the flame had no shadow to speak of, but you could 'tell' its presence by the delicate wavering 'heat shadow'. The mind could be seen as such - thoughts are bright like the flame and the mind is the invisible companion that is 'there' but elusive. I know it's not a perfect analogy, but perhaps captures something of the essence of the mind.

2022-05-26 14:31:25 UTC

I think of a beautiful endless library.

The universe as ones mind

2022-06-14 16:47:26 UTC

I percieve the mind to be a universe on its own. A safe space of ones own unique perspective of the world. Where you can visit memories and dream of the future. Deal with situations based on past experience. But also find unknown possiblities and solutions. I think the mind is the driving point of our existence or our distinct difference to other creation. Your state of mind is dependent on your perception of reality. Its an internal world of ones self. The mind is comparable to the universe. As it's apparent it exists but its to greater too comprehend. It carries unknown knowledge that is yet to be revealed to us.

The Pensieve

2022-06-20 10:46:14 UTC

I like the idea of being able to visualise your thoughts, experience and memories in this creative way described by JKR.

Artistic sublimation

2022-06-21 08:43:23 UTC

I suffer from psychosis.

To me the best representation of the mind is as a refuge of things that are familiar and that I love, like colours, figurative paintings, etc. Yet it is also a prison I cannot escape, full or erratic noises and intense perceptions that are harmful to myself.

I chose to represent that with very saturated and bright colours and very thick harsh lines.

Can you, as the viewer, feel what I perceive the world as through my eyes, my point of view, my mind?

Without Consciousness, There's Nothing at All

zenaidaalmodovar — 2022-07-05 03:11:40 UTC

As I sit here pondering what to draw, what is it that is doing the pondering? Where do the thoughts come from? How does the three-pound mass of grey matter that is my brain give rise to the felt experience of sensations, feelings, and thoughts? I continue on this quest to understand it. I walked into the room and browsed in a bin to locate my mother's art supplies. I began to imagine the anatomy of the brain and how I have gained wisdom and understanding throughout my educational journey in several interdisciplinary fields. This drawing depicts my own work of artistic interpretation of how I visualize the mind. I will demonstrate that the mind captures how we view the world in material reality through the senses. Then there is the conscious self.

In the neural structure, the brain is an organic electrochemical system. The branching structure is one of the fundamental structural forms in nature, common to trees, neurons, and lightning.
The drawing refers to the division of functions between the left brain (language, logic) and the right brain (emotion, space perception)
We are bombarded by social media news about the Ukraine war, military tanks appeared in my mind and nestled beside raindrops, trees, dollar bills, continents, and galaxies. It shows us how experience is translated into thought and how memories are layered.
The brain and body are connected through neural pathways made up of neurotransmitters, hormones, and chemicals. These pathways transmit signals between the body and the brain to control our everyday functions, from breathing, digestion, and pain sensations to movement, thinking, and feeling. These nine major organ systems in the human body are the integumentary system, the musculoskeletal system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, the digestive system, the excretory system, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the reproductive system. The brain sends and receives chemical and electrical signals throughout the body. Different signals control different processes, and your brain interprets each.
All of the knowledge and wisdom that we have concerning our external world is conveyed through our five senses. It is generating a conscious experience. (sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste)

Could the mind be like a house?

2022-07-09 08:19:31 UTC

A mind is faster than a light

2022-08-06 15:19:53 UTC

A mind is faster than a light

2022-08-06 15:21:49 UTC

The mind's memory by Dali

2022-11-23 15:24:13 UTC

My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:34:50 UTC

In God we trust

My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:39:06 UTC

My mind is green life
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My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:42:53 UTC

My mind is my imaginations
Dr.shahin maleki rad

My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:45:31 UTC

My mind is my eyes
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My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:50:23 UTC

My eyes is my world
My world is my mind
Dr.shahin maleki rad

My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:53:22 UTC

Dr.shahin maleki rad

My mind is my GOD

2022-12-13 18:59:04 UTC

My mind is my healing
I have snake
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My mind is like a house

2022-12-19 21:59:43 UTC

I imagine my mind as a house with different rooms for different functions. I can connect with others via the door. Incoming sensory information is coming in via the aerial and discarded thoughts leave like smoke. Memories are stored on the Attic.

A lover of pattern

2023-03-01 21:37:01 UTC

The creation is a reflection of the creator, so this is as close as I can get to representing my mind.

2023-03-06 05:57:06 UTC

This image stood out to me. It feels like the mind is a thing trapped in a body. It is something seperate and powerful stuck in a vesel (human body). It has more potential but our bodies resict it from reaching it's full potential.

What Is A Mind

2023-03-17 19:34:22 UTC

This emoji is a visual representation of what a mind is to me...

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The Soul

2023-04-11 00:21:07 UTC

This image really stood out to me. When i meditate this is how i usually feel. Where my energy comes from. if you look closer you can see the clocks and angels and birds also flying towards the center of the silhouette. Personally i think it has to do with the past, present, and future.

Conflict

2023-07-23 17:32:47 UTC

2023-08-08 10:53:41 UTC

This is what I would like my mind to be like all the time

sarahporder1 — 2023-08-10 18:41:24 UTC

I imagine it something like this. Like an office, but sometimes things just go haywire.