The relations of mind and brain1884 |
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analogous animal intelligence appears basal ganglia belonging body brain proper cerebellum cerebral cerebrum co-ordination conclusion connected consciousness considerable contrast convolutions direction discrimination distinct electric stimulation evidence excitation exercise experience external facts Ferrier fissure frontal frontal lobe functional activity grey matter hemispheres higher horse human brain illustration impulse influence intellectual involved layer lobe membrane ment mental activity mind monkey motor activity motor apparatus motor cell motor centres motor nerves movement muscles muscular system nature nerve action nerve cells nerve centre nerve energy nerve fibres nerve lines nerve system observation occipital lobe olfactory olfactory tract optic organ physical Physiology portion recognised reflex action region relation retina sensation sensibility sensori-motor activity sensory and motor sensory apparatus sensory cell sensory impression sensory nerve sensory system sleep smell special senses spinal structure surface Sylvian fissure theory tion volition voluntary whole
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Page 308 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 480 - ... observation it was found that, after being about two hours in bed, she became restless and began to mutter to herself ; she then uttered sounds precisely resembling the tuning of a violin, and at length, after some prelude, dashed off into elaborate pieces of music, i Confeasions of cm Opium Eater.
Page 294 - If, therefore, we speak of the Mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future ; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the Mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox, that something which ex hypolhesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Page 504 - So far as I can judge from the immense mass of accessible evidence, we have to admit that the belief in spiritual beings appears among all low races with whom we have attained to thoroughly intimate acquaintance.
Page 473 - Previous to his injury, though untrained in the schools, he possessed a well balanced mind, and was looked upon by those who knew him as a shrewd, smart business man, very energetic and persistent in executing all his plans of operation. In this regard his mind was radically changed, so decidedly that his friends and acquaintances said he was "no longer Gage.
Page 274 - ... or vinegar, or quinine, as readily as water ; no noise affects him ; and light influences him only under certain conditions. Dr. Mesnet remarks, that the sense of touch alone seems to persist, and indeed to be more acute and delicate than in the normal state : and it is by means of the nerves of touch, almost exclusively, that his organism is brought into relation with the external world.
Page 376 - The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did; but now the truth began to flash upon her : her intellect began to work: she perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind...
Page 421 - This eminent person had been consulted respecting a case of great importance and much difficulty, and he had been studying it with intense anxiety and attention. After several days had been occupied in this manner, he was observed by his wife to rise from his bed in the night and go to a writing-desk which stood in the bedroom. He then sat down and wrote a long letter, which he put carefully by in the desk and returned to bed.
Page 211 - A chicken that had been made the subject of experiments on hearing, was unhooded when nearly three days old. For six minutes it sat chirping and looking about it; at the end of that time it followed with its head and eyes the movements of a fly twelve inches distant; at ten minutes it made a peck...
Page 308 - Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why.