{"product_id":"2940011984549","title":"MIND-ENERGY - Lectures and Essays","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.  LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great problems — Philosophical systems — Lines of facts — Consciousness, memory, anticipation — What beings are conscious? — The faculty of choosing — Consciousness awake and consciousness slumbering — Consciousness and unforeseeability — The mechanism of free action — The tensions of duration — The evolution of life — Man — The creative\u003cbr\u003eactivity — The meaning of joy — The moral life — The social life — The beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. THE SOUL AND THE BODY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe common-sense theory — The materialist theory — Their shortcoming — The metaphysical origin of the hypothesis of \u003cbr\u003ea parallelism or equivalence between cerebral activity and mental activity — The appeal to experience — The probable\u003cbr\u003erole of the brain — Thought and pantomime — Attention to life — Distraction and alienation — Theory suggested by the\u003cbr\u003estudy of memory, especially word-memory — Where are memories preserved? — Does the soul survive the body?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. \"PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING\" AND PSYCHICAL RESEARCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prejudice against \"psychical research\"—Telepathy and science — Telepathy and coincidence — Character of modern science — Objections against psychical research in the name of science — The metaphysics implied in the objections — What a direct study of mental activity might yield —  Consciousness and materiality — Future of psychical research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. DREAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe part which visual, auditive, tactile, and other sensations play in dreams — The part which memory plays — Is the dream creative? — The mechanism of perception in the dream state and in the awake state: analogies and differences — The psychical character of sleep — Disinterestedness and detension — The state of tension.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. MEMORY OF THE PRESENT AND FALSE RECOGNITION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFalse recognition described — Distinguished from: (1) certain pathological states; (2) vague or uncertain recognition \u003cbr\u003e— Three systems of explanation, according to whether the trouble is regarded as affecting thought, feeling or volition —\u003cbr\u003eThe theories criticized — A principle of explanation proposed for a wide class of psychical disorders — How memory is \u003cbr\u003eformed — Memory of the present — The duplication of the present in perception and memory — Why this duplication is \u003cbr\u003enormally unconscious — In what way it may become conscious — Effect of an \"inattention to life \"— Insufficiency of impetus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. INTELLECTUAL EFFORT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the intellectual characteristic of intellectual effort? — The different planes of consciousness and the movement of the mind in traversing them — Analysis of the effort to remember: instantaneous recall and laborious recall — Analysis\u003cbr\u003eof the effort of intellection: mechanical interpretation and attentive interpretation — Analysis of the effort of invention: the scheme, the images and their reciprocal adaptation — Results of effort — The metaphysical bearing of the problem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. BRAIN AND THOUGHT: A PHILOSOPHICAL ILLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe doctrine of an equivalence between the cerebral and the mental — Can it be translated either into the language \u003cbr\u003eof idealism or into that of realism? — The idealist expression of the theory avoids contradiction only by an unconscious\u003cbr\u003elapse into realism — The realist expression only escapes contradiction by an unconscious lapse into idealism — The mind\u003cbr\u003eoscillates continually and unconsciously between idealism and realism — The fundamental illusion is continually reinforced\u003cbr\u003eby complementary and dependent illusions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Huxley Lecture delivered in the University of Birmingham, May 24, 1911.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a lecture is dedicated to the memory of a distinguished man of science, one cannot but feel some constraint in the choice of subject. It must be a subject that would have specially interested the person honoured. I feel no embarrassment on this account in regard to the great name of Huxley; the difficulty would be to find any problem to which his mind would have been indifferent, one of the greatest minds the England of the Nineteenth Century produced. 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