nethermind
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nethermind (plural netherminds)
- The lower or subconscious mind.
- 1969, Thomas M. Disch, Camp concentration:
- The truth perhaps - the true truth - is not so much that the mask is hollow as that I don't care to look behind it at the nystagmic flicker of image image image that the nethermind is broadcasting to the faulty receptor of the overmind.
- 2001, Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir:
- This is how he does it as a writer: he runs everything past his innocence, his nethermind, his first soul. He runs everything past his soul.
- 2004, Erik Davis, TechGnosis:
- While the mesmerists were uncovering the ethereum through their patients' netherminds, measurable electromagnetism was also beginning to radically reconfigure the official scientific picture of the cosmos.