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"An organized mind is a disciplined mind. And a disciplined mind is a powerful mind."
-- Batman (Batman the Brave and the Bold)
That doesn't seem to follow. An organized mind may not be disciplined. It may even be obsessively organized at the expense of being disciplined.
Assuming the mind is human, then I suppose you might have to modify it to ever make it truly organized, but identifying and organizing one's thoughts is an important part of rationality. You cannot make any effort to organize your thoughts without a certain degree of discipline. Think of the martial arts metaphor people here keep using in regards to rationality.
I expect there is a correlation between degree of organisation, degree of discipline and measures of a minds' 'power'. But this relationship is definitely not one of a series of "is a".
To be honest I try not to. That kind of thinking seems to lead to "koans", which seem to be a name for saying things that are blatantly false but feeling deep while doing so because there is some loosely related not-false lesson that someone could conceivably deconstruct from the koan.
So says a man-dressed-like-a-bat.
(That's not a jibe aimed at the quote but rather a reference to this.)
Downvoted because this comment serves only to propagate a mildly-entertaining meme, rather than contributing to the discussion in some way.