...themselves are undeniable, but their causal influence, according to Professor Huxley, is an illusion. " Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness...changes which take place automatically in the organism. . . . The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but thejsymbol of that state...

...if these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols iu consciousness of the changes which take place automatically...that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling vje call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which...

...positions are well based, it follows that our ' mental conditions are simply the symbols in conscious' ness of the changes which take place automatically in ' the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustra' tion, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a ' voluntary act, but the symbol...

...positions are well based, it follows that our ' mental conditions are simply the symbols in conscious' ness of the changes which take place automatically in ' the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustra' tion, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a ' voluntary act, but the symbol...

...Any other conception than this involves a paradox. I am unable to quite understand how it can be said that " our mental conditions are simply the symbols...changes which take place automatically in the organism," if that idea of the nature of consciousness which I have endeavored to make intelligible in the preceding...

...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brainsubstance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is...that, to : take an extreme illustration, the feeling I we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which...

...in the motion of the matter of the organism. If these positions are well baaed, it follows thaBpur mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which lake place automatically in the organism ; and that. to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we...

...Review, November 1874, pp. 575, 576). " It seems to me," says this distinguished scientific teacher, "that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that...symbols in consciousness of the changes which take plate automatically in the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call...

...physical changes, and not a cause of such changes. We are, therefore, regarded as conscious automata. " Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness...changes which take place automatically in the organism. In men, as in brutes, there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the...

...of the Kirchhoff school. Huxley, for example, thus winds up his article on Conscious Automatism : " If these positions are well based, it follows that...illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of the voluntary act, but the symbol of the state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act."...