¶ Mind (1)
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Mind:
"Mind is the weightless and uniquely human facility which surveys the ever larger inventory of special case experiences stored in the brain bank, and, seeking to identify their inter-complementary significance, from time to time discovers one of the rare scientifically generalizable principles, running consistently through out all the relevant experience set.
"The thoughts that discover them are weightless and tentative but may also be eternal. They suggest eternity but do not prove it even though there have been no experiences this far which imply exceptions to their persistence. It also seems to follow that the more experiences we have the more chances there are that mind may discover, on the one hand, additional generalized principles, or, on the other hand, exceptions which disqualify one or another of the already catalogued principles which, have heretofore held ‘true’ without contradiction for a long time, had been tentatively conceding to be demonstrating eternal persistence of behavior. Mind’s relentless reviewing of the comprehensive
¶ Citations
- NEHRU SPEECH, p.9, 13 Nov’69
