If in concluding that all animals have a nervous system, we mean the same thing and no more as if we had said "all known animals," the proposition is not general, and the process by which it is arrived at is not induction.
No brain or nervous system is perfect, so the problem is one of the incapacity which causes the maladjustment.
Their assumption of superior wisdom has its basis only in a nervous system which is sluggish and phlegmatic to stimuli.
But the human organism owes its organic character, the organisation of its parts into a single whole, to its nervous system.
The man left in thus reduces to a nervous system; and that is the truth of the statement, often met with in popular scientific writing, that the brain is the organ of mind.
There are a number of respects in which a nervous system, having no more than we have thus far described, would fall short of meeting the requirements of any animal except perhaps the very simplest.
There is undoubted economy in having the control of the smooth muscles and glands carried on by means of comparatively few discharges from the central nervous system.
In some very low animals the whole nervous system is made up of such simple connections.
Such being the elementary construction of a nervous system, it is plain that animal tribes in which it exists in no higher degree of complexity must be merely automata.
In those low tribes of life which show the first indications of a nervous system, its operation is purely mechanical.
Memory was in full operation for so long a time before anything like what we call a nervous system can be detected, that Professor Hering must not be supposed to be intending to confine memory to a motor nerve system.
We naturally ask whether the brain and nervous system of the human infant are subjected to the principles we have laid down above?
Another question of importance: Is the energy liberated in the oxidation of alcohol in the liver available for the use of the muscles, nervous system, or glands?
If in concluding that all animals have a nervous system, we mean the same thing and no more as if we had said “all known animals,” the proposition is not general, and the process by which it is arrived at is not induction.
But no one would hold that the influence of light has physically caused the formation of a nervous system, of a muscular system, of an osseous system, all things which are continuous with the apparatus of vision in vertebrate animals.
Hence a nervous system becomes requisite, which may excite and influence the whole.
In other words, is there nothing in that infant, or in the adult which he becomes, but a brain and a nervous system of a highly organized and complex physical structure adapted to receive impressions on itself from without?
But this is not to be done by merely furnishing the act of knowing with a body and a nervous system.
But consciousness is a cross-section or a projection of things made by their interaction with a nervous system.
The lowest animals--those destitute of a nervous system--move in response to a stimulus from without.
The segmented annelid type of nervous system consists of a supra-oesophageal ganglion, composed of the fused ganglia belonging to the pre-oral segments, and an infra-oesophageal chain of separate ganglia.
In accordance with this nomenclature the central nervous system of many of the Arthropoda may be divided as follows:-- 1.
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