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Mind: Perception

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‘Mind’ is a very loose term, one that has been used over the centuries to cover a vast number of conceptions and misconceptions. Here I mean to add one more description, this time aided by recent findings in the sciences, particularly the science of neurophysiology.

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  1. W. Grey Walter, The Living Brain ( London 1957, Duckworth).

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  2. H.W. Magoun, The Waking Brain (Springfield, 111., 1958, Charles C. Thomas).

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  4. W. Grey Waleter, op. cit., p. 75.

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  5. For the “intentional consciousness” see Chisholm’s ‘Intentionality and The Theory of Signs’ in Philosophical Studies, III 1952, pp. 56-63. The later work is Perceiving (Ithaca, N.Y., 1957, Cornell University Press).

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© 1982 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague

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Feibleman, J.K. (1982). Mind: Perception. In: Technology and Reality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7455-5_8

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