mentation

mentation (countable and uncountable, plural mentations)

1. Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 28:

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

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

     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.

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