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localities of specific function ; but this " more * is not a 

 " centre " in the sense of something in the brain. This 

 "more," our Psychoid or Entelechy, uses the conductive and 

 specific faculties of the brain as a piano-player uses the piano. 

 In these words is included what we are not entitled to 

 attribute to brain-functions proper. 



The Brain's Part in " Association " 



Another very important topic now requires some further 

 elucidation. The "historical basis of reacting" is created 

 in its specificity from without ; it therefore must be marked 

 in a certain bodily manner in the central nervous system. 

 Let us try to show what this manner is. The immediate 

 functions of the historical basis are of two kinds. It is 

 an elemental fact, to speak psychologically, that a sensorial 

 impression occurring the second time is known to be " the 

 same " as the first impression ; this character, " sameness," 

 may be called the first immediate function of the historical 

 basis of reacting. Its second function is " association by 

 contiguity," or the fact that any sensation is not only 

 regarded as the " same " or " different," but that it also 

 awakens the remembrance of other sensations of the past, 

 which were connected with it in time or space on a former 

 occasion. 



It is in the brain that the possibility of the origin 

 of these two kinds of elemental functions of the historical 

 basis must lie in some way ; experiments indeed show that 

 they are present in it in a sort of specifically localised 

 distribution. 



But by no means, it must be repeated, is the primary 



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