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“If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes ; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.”

Quote by Wilhelm Wundt

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Wilhelm Wundt was a German psychologist recognized as the father of experimental psychology. He founded the first psychological laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig and made significant contributions to the study of consciousness and the structure of the mind. Wundt's work laid the groundwork for modern psychology. more

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