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Patanjali was an ancient Indian author credited with the Yoga Sutra, a concise text that organized classical yoga around an eightfold discipline.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher, known for duration, creative evolution, and receiving the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher noted for What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974), a landmark argument about consciousness and subjectivity.

Wilfrid Sellars was an American philosopher whose 1956 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind attacked the myth of the given.

Daniel Dennett was an American philosopher of mind, notable for Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) and his naturalistic account of consciousness.

Anaxagoras was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher who brought Ionian inquiry to Athens and made Nous, or mind, a cosmic ordering principle.

Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher whose 1949 The Concept of Mind attacked Cartesian dualism and popularized the phrase category mistake.

John Searle is an American philosopher of language and mind, known for speech act theory and the Chinese Room argument published in 1980.

Susanne Langer was an American philosopher of art and mind, known for Philosophy in a New Key (1942) and a theory of symbolic form.

Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and speaker, notable for rejecting organized belief after dissolving the Order of the Star in 1929.