All of us here have great minds.

You know? Most of us here have great minds, right?

And you have the cerebral cortex providing the great spectacle of our minds with the profusion of images that are, in fact, the contents of our minds and that we normally pay most attention to, as we should, because that's really the film that is rolling in our minds.

And then you've got the word minds. They make great journalists, and they also make really, really good stage actors.

The Internet has played a great role, helping these people to speak up their minds, to collaborate together, to start thinking together.

We live in a society now where we have lots of think tanks, where great minds go to think about the world.

In other words, the minds on the margin are not the marginal minds.

Feeding Young Minds

We own our minds.

They power our minds.

And so when we see another person, we reenact in our own minds what we see in their minds.

Here, there must be synergy of great minds and principled commitments to help the Somali people overcome their political and human debacle rather than assuming a pathetic or passive attitude.

No, it's deep in our minds.

Also, our bodies change our minds.

What would happen to our minds?

Well, how often do people's minds wander?

You'll see these different kinds of minds.

And anyone who's ever been in a heterosexual relationship knows that the minds of men and the minds of women are not indistinguishable.

Perhaps there are other states that we can't access because of how our minds are structured but other minds possibly could access them.

And one of the most beautiful descriptions I've come across in this research of how minds interpenetrate was written by a great theorist and scientist named Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana.

And nobody minds that. We actively welcome it.

Oliver Sacks What hallucination reveals about our minds

Rebecca Saxe How we read each other's minds

I can tap into thousands of people's minds.

And with our minds we can rationalize anything.

And it's not easy to change their minds.

We've heard a lot recently about hunch and instinct and blink like sudden moments of clarity, but in fact, a lot of great ideas linger on, sometimes for decades, in the back of people's minds.

It is intolerant of those who speak their minds

Inge Missmahl brings peace to the minds of Afghanistan

The best minds were stumped really, really smart people.

BWM realizes safety, in people's minds, has two components.

Temple Grandin The world needs all kinds of minds

We sit around it and it shapes our minds.

I'm talking about men with young minds, of course.

He will guide them, and dispose their minds aright,

He will guide them, and dispose their minds aright,

On the other hand, when our minds wander, they're unconstrained. We can't change the physical reality in front of us, but we can go anywhere in our minds.

So the second question really was, you know, so we know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds?

Isn't that incredible that we can't read each other's minds?

But even today, that memory is still in people's minds.

Where better to challenge those minds than here at TED?

They don't have to have minds to have a plan.

Basically, open your hearts and your minds to the child.

The best minds in the best institutions generally get it wrong.

Well, what do you talk about when you talk about minds?