Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical … - Wilhelm Wundt

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Wilhelm Wundt

Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes. . . It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

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