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Perhaps, could we penetrate into his own inmost thought, we should discover that at the moment he supposes a mere cell can manufacture the phenomena of consciousness, some vague image suggests itself to him whereby he identifies these phenomena with a light and subtle principle escaping from the nerve cell, something which resembles an electric _effluve_, or a will-of-the-wisp, or the flame from a punch-bowl. [
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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