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data it arouses We are so accustomed to think of the 



brain in the terms of the information furnished by physical sci- 

 ence that we mistake its reach and suppose that it exhausts the 

 brain. The truth is that the brain should be thought of as the 

 brain-mind. We impoverish nature by identifying it with the 

 skeleton which science deciphers. 



Again I may quote from my brother (1907): 



We as souls are indissolubly connected with the rest of the 

 universe and there is no use in attempting to sever what God has 

 united. Finally, therefore, we perhaps see that the psychical 

 differs from the physical as the result of a logical analysis which 

 is possible by reason of our hmitation. So long as individuality 

 shuts us up to one point in consciousness, and so long as con- 

 sciousness seems to require equihbrated energy as a condition 

 of its unity, so long this distinction of subjective (psychical) 

 from objective (physical) will remain in force and will be to us 

 the most vital of all distinctions [p. 212]. Where, then, is the limit 

 of self? It is not for me to draw it. I will not cut the narrow 

 isthmus of flesh which connects me with my twin — the universe 

 [p. 219]. 



Human consciousness is one of the data of experi- 

 ence, and this experience when examined without 

 prejudice arising from traditional mysticism and in 

 the Hght of all that we know of the relations of all 

 bodily organs with their functions clearly indicates 

 that my consciousness is a function of my body, or of 

 parts of it, in just the same sense that contraction is 

 a function of my muscles. 



Now, as we follow muscles and their functions 

 back in the growth of the individual body and in the 



