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pulse and act as connected with that particular situation, No 
cat ever goes around clawing, clawing, clawing all the time, 
because clawing in these boxes has resulted in pleasure. 
Secondly, the connection thus stamped in is not contem- 
poraneous, but prior to the pleasure. So much for the fact; 
now for the explanation. I do not wish to rehearse or add 
to the arguments with which.so many pages have been al- 
ready filled by scientists and philosophers both. What we 
need most is not argument, but accurate accounts of the 
mental fact and of the brain-process. But I do wish to say 
to the parallelist, what has not to my knowledge been said, 
that if he presupposes, to account for this fact, a ‘ physical 
analogue of the hedonic consciousness,’ it is his bounden 
duty to first show how any motion in any neurone or group 
of neurones in the nervous system can possess this power of 
stamping in any current which causesit. For no one would, 
from our present knowledge of the brain, judge @ priori that 
any motion in any part of it could be conceived which should 
be thus regnant over all the others. And next he must show 
the possibility of the current which represents the associa- 
tion being the excitant of the regnant motion in a manner 
direct enough for the purpose. 
I wish also to say that whoever thinks that, going along 
with the current which parallels the association,'there is an 
accompanying minor current, which parallels the pleasure 
and which stamps in the first current when present with it, 
flies directly in the face of the facts. There is no pleasure 
along with the association. The pleasure does not come until 
after the association is done and gone. It is caused by no 
such minor current, but by the excitation of peripheral 
sense-organs when freedom from confinement is realized or 
food is secured, Of course, the notion of such a secondary 
subcurrent is’mythology, anyway. \ 
