cerebration

• “Human cerebration is the most important rill we know of, and both the 'capacity' and the 'intensity' factor thereof may be treated as infinitesimal.”

  Familiar Letters of William James III

• “And the theory which we have now before us sanctions the doctrine that it may be so regarded, if only we remember that its causal activity depends upon its identity with the obverse aspect known as cerebration, without which identity in apparent duality neither volition nor cerebration could be the cause which in fact they are.”

  Mind and Motion and Monism

• “Indeed, they reduce themselves to these two principal propositions: for some the unconscious is a purely physiological activity, a "cerebration"; for others it is a gradual diminution of consciousness which exists without being bound to me -- i.e., to the principal consciousness.”

  Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English

• “The individual may appear entirely confident in what they are saying, speaking at length without pause, without displaying any deliberation, cerebration, contemplation or any other forms of thought whatsoever.”

  GOP Mailer Likens John McCain To Hillary, Suggests Obama Is All About "Pretty Words"

• “The purity of language and the precedence of language over cerebration derives from his visual conception of words.”

  Newsweek: The Puzzle Of Genius

• “Using computers traditionally has been associated with Mr. Spock-style cerebration, the ultimate kind of left-brain activity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why We're Powerless

• “The ripple of power and cerebration outclassed any party political conference I have attended.”

  Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me

• “Our LSD sessions were the opposite of parties; they brought on bouts of crushing introspection and spirals of anxious cerebration.”

  Lost in the Meritocracy

• “Fear impedes cerebration and people make dumb moves when emotions run high.”

  Think Progress » ALLEN: “A Likely Scenario For What Happened Today Is Patrick Fitzgerald Got Some Indictments”

• “Too often, as we look at a pointillist canvas, some obstacle seems to intercede between the eye and the heart; perhaps it's the dazzle of technique, or the chill of theory, cerebration and scientific calculation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Not the Seurat We Think We Know

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