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countable and uncountable, plural mentations
Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking. quotations examples
Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone.
1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, page 28
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.
2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism