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The Physical Basis of Mind: A Symposium

This book is a compilation of scholarly works that delve into the philosophical and scientific inquiry of how the physical aspects of the universe relate to mental processes and consciousness. more

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Charles Scott Sherrington
Charles Scott Sherrington

Charles Scott Sherrington was a British neurophysiologist born on November 27, 1857, and died on March 4, 1952. He is renowned for his extensive research on the nervous system, particularly his contributions to the neuromuscular junction. Sherrington's work laid the foundation for the development of neuroscience. more

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“To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.”

“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

“The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.”