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... mind became effective as an organizing center for bringing about counter - adaptations and reconstructions both in man's own self and in his habitat ; for the mind found means of outlasting the brain that first brought it into existence ...
... mind became effective as an organizing center for bringing about counter - adaptations and reconstructions both in man's own self and in his habitat ; for the mind found means of outlasting the brain that first brought it into existence ...
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... mind could not come into existence without the active assistance of the brain , or indeed , without the whole organism and the environing world . Yet once the mind created , out of its overflow of images and sounds , a system of ...
... mind could not come into existence without the active assistance of the brain , or indeed , without the whole organism and the environing world . Yet once the mind created , out of its overflow of images and sounds , a system of ...
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... mind are non - comparable aspects of a single or- ganic process . Though mind can exist and endure through many other ve- hicles than the brain , mind still needs to pass once more through a living brain to change from potential to ...
... mind are non - comparable aspects of a single or- ganic process . Though mind can exist and endure through many other ve- hicles than the brain , mind still needs to pass once more through a living brain to change from potential to ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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