Human Minds

Part 1 Development in childhood: modes of mind - an introduction; some human ways of dealing with hard fact; the point mode and its origins in infancy; the onset of the line mode - remembered past and possible future; "pretend play" and conceptual choice; two varieties of the construct mode; language in relation to the modes; the intellectual transcendent mode. Part 2 Range and balance in maturity: the intellectual and value-sensing modes - a look at history; the modes and the advent of science; the advanced modes after the enlightenment; dealing with emotions - some Western ways; dealing with emotions - some Buddhist ways; value-sensing experiences - some contemporary evidence; other and better desires - prospects for a dual enlightenment. Appendix: the modes.