The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)
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De què tracta
El primer volum: l'hàbit, el corrent de pensament, la consciència de si mateix, la memòria i l'atenció.
Context i història
Aquí hi ha el capítol que va donar el nom al «corrent de consciència»: James hi sosté que la vida mental no està feta d'idees separades que s'enganxen, sinó d'un flux continu on res no torna dues vegades igual. La formulació va sortir de la psicologia i va anar a parar a la novel·la del segle XX. Publicat el 1890, després de dotze anys de feina.
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in the frog's spinal cord until he has shown that the useful result which the nervous machinery brings forth under a given irritation _remains the same when the machinery is altered_. If, to take the stock instance, the right knee of a headless frog be irritated with acid, the right foot will wipe it off. When, however, this foot is amputated, the animal will often raise the _left_ foot to the spot and wipe the offending material away. Pflüger and Lewes reason from such facts in the following way: If the first reaction were the result of mere machinery, they say; if that irritated portion of the skin discharged the right leg as a trigger discharges its own barrel of a shot-gun; then amputating the right foot would indeed frustrate the wiping, but would not make the _left_ leg move. It would simply result in the right stump moving through the empty air (which is in fact the phenomenon sometimes observed). The right trigger makes no effort to discharge the left barrel if the right one be unloaded; nor does an electrical machine ever get restless because it can only emit sparks, and not hem pillow-cases like a sewing-machine. If, on the contrary, the right leg originally moved for the _purpose_ of wiping the acid, then nothing is more natural than that, when the easiest means of effecting that purpose prove fruitless, other means should be tried. Every failure must keep the animal in a state of disappointment which will lead to all sorts of new trials and devices; and tranquillity will not ensue till one of these, by a happy stroke, achieves the wished-for end. In a similar way Goltz ascribes intelligence to the frog's optic lobes and cerebellum. We alluded above to the manner in which a sound frog imprisoned in water will discover an outlet to the atmosphere. Goltz found that frogs deprived of their cerebral hemispheres would often exhibit a like ingenuity.…