The Origin of Consciousness: An Attempt to Conceive the Mind as a Product of Evolution (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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IN a work published some years ago I attempted to Show that panpsychism, or the theory of mind-stuff, deals more successfully than other philosophies with the problem of mind and body, since it enables us (1) to reconcile psychophysical parallelism with the efficacy of mind, (2) to explain why two such things as mind and body are connected at all. Certain difficulties, it is true, remained, which I mentioned at the end of the book and reserved for future treatment the seeming disparity in complexity between the mind and the brain-process, the nature of mind-stuff, the origin of consciousness out of it. To solve, if possible, these difficulties is the aim of the present} volume.

My object being thus to elaborate and fortify the theory, it will perhaps be useful if I briefly recall its main outlines and the premises on which it rests. In doing so, I shall have an opportunity to acknowledge certain changes in my philosophical views that have taken place during the fifteen years since the other work appeared - changes relating to the premises.

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