Articoli correlati a Problems of Life and Mind (Volume 3, pt. 2)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. MOTOR PERCEPTIONS AND INTUITIONS. 95a. The sensations arising from muscular contractions (in which are included the vasomotor effects) are, like other sensations, gradually combined and condensed in perceptions and intuitions. A movement is effected in response to a stimulus. It is felt, and, after a time, localised. The whole group of feelings prompting, accompanying, and following the movement, is registered and associated with the visible effect: we have then a motor perception, i.e., we infer that a given sensation will be followed by a given movement, or that a given movement will be accompanied by and followed by given sensations. It has taken its place in the ideal sphere: we know in an intuition that by moving the arm we shall reach an object, by turning the head we shall see what is now invisible, by moving the vocal organs we shall sing or speak; just as we know that the coloured object on the table is an orange, and that if touched it will be cold and rough, if smelt and tasted it will be agreeably odorous and sapid. Motor perceptions are condensed in intuitions and generalised in conceptions. The formation of words is a good example of motor perception. Originally the word is an articulate sound, expressing a feeling as the movement of a limb expresses a feeling: the sound and the articulation are the analytically separable passive and active sides of the process. After many repetitions the expression is registered in the ideal sphere. It is then ideally recoverable, is mentally heard, without actual production. It has become a symbol or part of our mental possessions, to be employed at will, under infinitely varying combinations. 96. The motor perceptions, which are frequently called into play, become organised intuitions, which...
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