Mind and Body: The Theories of Their RelationD. Appleton, 1894 - 200 páginas |
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acquisitions activity æther ALEXANDER BAIN animals APPLETON Aquinas argument Aristotle Augustine blood bodily Bond Street brain called cause cells centres cerebral CLAUDIAN Cloth condition connexion of mind consciousness corporeal corpuscles corresponding currents definite degree Descartes diffused distinct doctrine EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON effect elements embodiment emotion energy Evolution excitement existence expression extended extended consciousness farther feeling fibres force Form functions groupings HERBERT SPENCER human ideas Illustrations immaterial immortal impression influence Intellect intelligible intensity knowledge Mamertus manifestations material matter memory ment mental fact mind and body mode motion movements moving organs muscles muscular mystery nature Neo-Platonism nerve-cells nerves nervous action nervous system nexion nutritive operation philosopher physical Pleasure and Pain present principle principle of Relativity Professor properties pure regards remarks scientific sensation sense sentient separate SHELDON AMOS shock Sir JOHN LUBBOCK skin soul spirit stimulation substance suppose theory things THOMAS AQUINAS thought tion viscera whole
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Página 194 - one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental — a double-faced unity.
Página 131 - ... of the cerebral action to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial substance ; which immaterial substance, after working alone, imparts its results to the other edge of the physical break, and determines the active response — two shores of the material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial. There is, in fact, no rupture of nervous continuity. The only tenable supposition is, that mental and physical proceed together, as individual twins.