Just a side note on an earlier topic. It seems to me that if one is hell-bent on tarnishing the memory of great minds by emphasizing their eccentric and outmoded ideas to shore up one's own archaic notions; then one should also give account of the progressive edges of their thinking on such matters. Take for example this from James' introduction to Fechner's book on the afterlife:
"But movements can be superimposed and compounded, the smaller on the greater, as wavelets upon wave. This is as true and the mental as in the physical sphere. Speaking psychologically, we may say that a general wave of consciousness rises out of a subconscious background, and that certain portions of it catch the emphasis, as wavelets catch light. The whole process is conscious, but emphatic wave-tips of the consciousness are of such contracted span that they are momentarily insulated from the rest. They realize themselves apart, as a twig might realize itself, and forget the parent tree. Such an insulted bit of experience leaves, however, when it passes away, a memory of itself. The residual and subsequent consciousness becomes different for its having occurred. On the physical side we say that the brain-process that corresponded to it altered permanently the future mode of the action of the brain." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
