mentation

plural mentations

1. countableuncountableMental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.

   Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone.

   1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 28

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   Suggesting that meditative training may foster the ability to control the automatic cascade of semantic associations triggered by a stimulus and, by extension, to voluntarily regulate the flow of spontaneous mentation.

   2008, Pagnoni G. Cekic M. Guo Y., “Thinking about Not Thinking Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation”, in PubMed, volume 3, number 9, PLoS One, →DOI, page 1

   Behavioral economists argue a worldview based on the notion that human mentation is frail and flawed, leading to irrational choices that fail to adequately consider the wider structure of alternatives.

   2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism