...changes which take place automatically in the organism, and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of brain which is the immediate cause of that act. Similarly Mr. Spencer, in the division entitled, "...

...volition is not the cause of the motion which follows it, but merely the '• symbol in consciousness " of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act (just as the blowing of a steam whistle signals, but does not cause, the starting of a locomotive)...

...plant. Writing on the same subject in the Contemporary Review for November, Professor Huxley asserts : " The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." Certainly, the state of the brain is the immediate cause of every voluntary movement ; but what brings...

...the motion of the matter of the organism . . . the feeling we call volition is not the cause of the voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of the act." * The mystery of consciousness is, indeed, the analogue * On the Hypothesis that Animals...

...changes which take place automatically in the organism; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata." Objection after objection has been raised to the automaton hypothesis. It has been dialectically disproved...

...changes which take place automatically in the organism, and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling (?) we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but a symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of the act. We are conscious automata."...

...changes which take place automatically in the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...with freewill in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less...

...plant. Writing on the same subject in the Contemporary Review for November, Professor Huxley asserts : " The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." Certainly, the state of the brain is the immediate cause of every voluntary movement ; but what brings...

...plant. Writing on the same subject in the Contemporary Review for November, Professor Huxley asserts : " The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." Certainly, the state of the brain is the immediate cause of every voluntary movement ; but what brings...

...simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism. . . . The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but thejsymbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." — (Fortnightly Review,...