¶ Rope
Index Entry
Rope:
"To present my scientific differentiation
Of brain and mind
I proceed as follows–
First I say:
‘I take a piece of rope and tense it.’
As I purposely tense it
I inadvertently make it tauter.
But I was not tensing the rope
For the purpose of making it tauter,
I was only trying to engage the rope.
Its girth is inadvertently contracting and
The rope is also inadvertently getting harder.
"In contracting and getting harder
The rope is going into radial compression
In a plane at ninety degrees to the axis of
My consciously purposeful tensing… "
¶ Citations
- BRAIN & MIND, p.124 May '72
