{"id":406,"date":"2010-06-12T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-11-04T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T01:25:06","slug":"mens-agitat-molem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/mens-agitat-molem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mens agitat molem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pessoa.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fernando Pessoa\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mens agitat molem&#8221; &#8211; Mind drives matter.<br>This phrase from Eneida, the epic novel by Verg\u00edlio, is the first &#8220;mind teaser&#8221; from &#8220;Mensagem&#8221;, a book by Fernando Pessoa. The title contains some random (?) letters from Virg\u00edlio&#8217;s phrase &#8211; <strong>Mens ag<\/strong>itat mol<strong>em<\/strong>, giving a clue about the mindset behind this masterpiece.<br>I&#8217;m a huge fan of this motto, since it&#8217;s a tricky &#8220;facelift&#8221; of the famous &#8220;Cogito ergo sum&#8221;. The major difference is the final goal &#8211; <strong>to act<\/strong>, therefore I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mens agitat molem&#8221; &#8211; Mind drives matter.This phrase from Eneida, the epic novel by Verg\u00edlio, is the first &#8220;mind teaser&#8221; from &#8220;Mensagem&#8221;, a book by Fernando Pessoa. The title contains some random (?) letters from Virg\u00edlio&#8217;s phrase &#8211; Mens agitat molem, giving a clue about the mindset behind this masterpiece.I&#8217;m a huge fan of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}