Quotes by Johannes P. Muller - Page 1

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
Johannes P. Muller /
Difficulty
Etc
Organs
External
So-Called
Specific
Stimuli
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The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.
Johannes P. Muller /
Cooperation
Vision
Rise
Cause
Double
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It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Johannes P. Muller /
Action
Corresponding
Identical
Improbable
Influence
Exceedingly
Parts
Result
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The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.
Johannes P. Muller /
Eternal
Organs
According
Creates
Essential
Organ
Principle
Seated
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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
Johannes P. Muller /
Electric
Magnetism
Nerves
Symbolic
Compared
Current
Principle
Therefore
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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
Johannes P. Muller /
Consciousness
Nerves
External
Bodies
Sensation
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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
Johannes P. Muller /
Immense
Measuring
Nervous
Propagation
Velocity
Attain
Case
Comparing
Shall
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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
Johannes P. Muller /
Animal
Chemistry
Objects
Physics
Treats
Actions
Bodies
Phenomena
Govern
Inorganic
Organic
Properties
Sciences
Substances
Vegetable
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He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.
Johannes P. Muller /
Compelled
Different Ways
Nerves
Sensibility
Consider
React
Specific
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
Johannes P. Muller /
Causes
Peculiar
Attribute
External
Essential
Excite
Influences
Ordinarily
Sensation
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