Word: continuum
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Nevertheless, mind, like the brain and body it inhabits, has evolved. Here Physiologist Sherrington is mightily puzzled. "The present individual is the latest bud from an energy-pattern which has without intermission been throwing off buds of its pattern for these last 20 million years or more. . . . The continuum is a material continuum. ... But the long history [of the psychical component] has not been a continuous one. It has been a succession of brief discontinuities. ... At the beginning of each successive generation of the energy-system, the psyche lapsed, only to appear after that physical system had reached a certain...