"mentation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone.",
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          "ref": "2008, Pagnoni G. Cekic M. Guo Y., “Thinking about Not-Thinking: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation\" National Library of Medicine https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2518618/”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), line 14:",
          "text": "Suggesting that meditative training may foster the ability to control the automatic cascade of semantic associations triggered by a stimulus and, by extension, to voluntarily regulate the flow of spontaneous mentation.",
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          "ref": "2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:",
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