The expression comes to mind with all the political activities going on: "Change your mind." As if you can order up a new brain. Or some part within the brain? But really what the science article says is that the mind uses the brain, and the brain responds to the mind. Well, the question immediately gets into what is consciousness. The scientific articles say something like: the mind is energy and the mind generates energy through thinking, feeling and choosing. We build thoughts, which are physical structures in our brain. And then it gets very complicated, very quickly.
We've been changing our mind for a long time. The Oxford Dictionary show the expression showing up around 1500. English has evolved a lot since then. Here's the entry for 1475:
My mynde is now nott most vppon bokys.
J. Paston in Paston Letters & Papers (2004) vol. I. 484
Isn't that a double negative sentence? And what is "bokys? Looks like the plural of bok - any collection of sheets or leaves, bound or unbound. Our current word is book.
OK, old and middle English is too hard, too. Turning to something straight-forward, I wonder about is why Sophie, our cat, eats the brush when you brush her. The answer says this: "Your cat might bite the brush during grooming due to overstimulation, discomfort, or a negative association with the brush or grooming process." There's another answer - she enjoys it. Quite happily chewing away on the plastic bristles. And she's purring. But then purring isn't particularly well understood either.
It does seem that trying to find the plural of an old english word "book" is not an easy search. I should look up the celebrity of the day - Val Kilmer's obituary, and join the millions who have searched on his name.
Here's another of the reflection pictures of the Canadian Tire store.
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