mindhood

English

Etymology

From mind +‎ -hood.

Noun

mindhood (uncountable)

1. The state, condition, or qualification of being a mind; mentality.
   • 1990, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Saint Germain: Prophecy to the Nations - Book 1 - Page 16:

     Each time for a single moment you experience the self as Guru, you then return to the self as disciple, determined to retain by conscious attainment and mindhood, mindhood, a greater and greater portion of the Great Guru above.

   • 2009, Elizabeth Schechter, How Many Minds? Individuating Mental Tokens in the Split-brain Subject - Page 51:

     Partly in order to justify this assumption, I adopt a modest set of criteria for mindhood, that says that minds are information-integrating systems, mental architectures in which belief (or ... decision-making, and that engage in various other paradigmatic mental processes, such as perceiving and learning.