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the machine (or some of the operations involved) is 

 intelligence. 



These, again, are mystic powers which to the 

 uninitiated may seem explicable only through the in- 

 tervention of metaphysical agencies. And the trouble 

 is that no mortal has yet been initiated into these 

 sacred mysteries. 



What shall we do about it? Shall we resign our- 

 selves to the inevitable and say, these mysteries are 

 unknowable? Or shall we gird up the loins of our 

 logical and theological Samsons, equip them with all 

 the armament of metaphysics that they are able to 

 carry (shall we complete the analogy and say, also, 

 with the j awbone of an ass ?), and bid them go out and 

 slay the Philistines and conquer the unknowable? 

 From this dilemma there is a third way out that is at 

 least worthy of serious consideration. Why not ap- 

 proach the problem with the usual technique of 

 scientific investigation, namely, assemble all known 

 observed facts that have a bearing on the question 

 and then fabricate hypotheses that are congruous 

 with these facts? 



The analysis of this third method of approach to 

 the mind-and-body question may proceed along lines 

 parallel with those followed in o\ir study of the prob- 

 lem of the seismograph. Mention has already been 

 made of the fact that in an examination of the func- 

 tions of the cerebral cortex considered as mechanism 

 the problem reaches both backward and forward 



