This work can be taken to suggest that although a physical theory is an intermediary between our observations and our notions of connections between them, it is an elaborate mental construction that is a meld of the way the mind works and objective observations.
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In occult traditions, practices range from inducing mental construction of a second body, called the " Body of Light " in Aleister Crowley's writings, through visualization and controlled breathing, followed by the transfer of consciousness to the secondary body by a mental act of will.
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Lakoff and N��ez also appear not to appreciate the extent to which intuitionists and constructivist point of view, in his dissertation, " On the Foundation of Mathematics ", argued that mathematics was a mental construction, a free creation of the mind and totally independent of logic and language.
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This suggests that the intuitionistic idea that mathematical objects exist only as specific mental constructions, or the idea of Lakoff and N��ez that mathematical objects exist only as " particular instances " of concepts / metaphors in our embodied brains, is an inadequate philosophical basis to account for the experience and de facto research methods of working mathematicians.
