Gerald Bivens

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There is no one of those complicated performances in the convolutions of the brain to which our trains of thought correspond, which is not a mere middle term interposed between an incoming sensation that arouses it and an outgoing discharge of some sort, inhibitory if not exciting, to which itself gives rise. The structural unit of the nervous system is in fact a triad, neither of whose elements has any independent existence.1

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  1. William James, "Reflex Action and Theism" in Title (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.