[The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Mind CHAPTER V 13/30
If we had to say that the mind as such is located anywhere, we should say in the gray matter of the cortex of the hemispheres of the brain.
For although, as we saw, animals without this organ can still see and hear and feel, yet we also saw that they could do little else and could learn to do nothing more.
All the higher operations of mind come back only when we think of the animal as having normal brain hemispheres. Further, we find this organ in some degree duplicating the function of the second-level centres, for fibres go out from these intermediate masses to certain areas of the hemispheres, which reproduce locally the senses of hearing, sight, etc.
By these fibres the functions of the senses are "projected" out to the surface of the brain, and the term "projection fibres" is applied to the nerves which make these connections.
The hemispheres are not content even with the most important of all functions--the strictly intelligent--but they are jealous, so to speak, of the simple sensations which the central brain masses are capable of awaking.
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