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eral — the answer to these philosophical 

 questions must square with the facts as 

 they are discovered, but into this specula- 

 tive field we need not now enter. We are 

 here interested only in the scientific and 

 practical aspects of the question/ 



The word mind Is used here in the ordi- 

 nary traditional sense. It implies an 

 awareness of some sort. Some of our ex- 

 periences we objectify as external things; 

 another complex of experience we objectify 

 as our own animal bodies; still other ex- 

 periences we do not objectify at all and 

 call them ideas, hopes, sentiments, aspira- 

 tions, Ideals, and so forth. These are just 

 as truly functions of our body as Is our 

 breathing. They are natural events. 

 Their causes are preceding natural events, 

 some outside our bodies, some Inside, some 

 easily demonstrable physiologically, some 

 known only Introspectively. Their results 

 are still other natural events, some men- 

 tal, some physiological, some perhaps pro- 

 found changes in external nature. 



A man may "make up his mind" to 

 start a forest fire. Certain physiological 

 processes ensue, resulting in striking a 

 match. The result is the destruction of 



^ See Brains of Rats and Men, chapter xvi. 



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