The System of Animate Nature the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University O
The System of Animate Nature the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University O
J Arthur John Arthur Thomson
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We must not think of two disparate series, one teleological, implying a purposive selective unity, and the other mechanical, due to the refined and complicated or- ganisation of the nervous system; we must think of one series fundamentally purposive and in its higher reaches consciously purposeful. As Bain put it, '^ The line of causal sequence is not mind causing body, and body causing mind, but mind-body giving birth to mind-body. " From a very different starting-point Samuel Butler said almo...st the same thing: ^^ The idea of a soul, or of that unknown something for which the word ' soul ' is our hieroglyphic, and the idea of living organism unite so spontaneously, and stick together so inseparably, that no matter how often we sunder them they will elude our vigilance and come together, like true lovers, in spite of us. " 250 THE PROBLEM OF BODY AND MIND (2) It is also objected to the identity hypothesis that there is lacking, except in the case of the introspecting psy- chologist, any observer occupying the inner-standpoint.
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