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By J. Klein

During this unique and hugely readable booklet Josephine Klein presents a close photo of ways younger babies adventure lifestyles and the way this lays the principles for later character buildings.

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Then we can imagine the eye running between A, B, and C, until finally, at the level of the three symbols ∠, , and ٙ, there is an integrated structure of neurons which could 30 OUR NEED FOR OTHERS be represented by a triangle. Let us imagine it in symbol-form, though we have to say it in words: We are here concerned with a simple idea that is difficult to put across. I have used algebraic-looking letters, and I have used nonverbal geometric-looking symbols to help it across. Really I should use pre-verbal, pre-conceptual, pre-anything means to communicate with: we learnt to read about triangles a good few years after we formed most of our concepts.

What is felt is a process . . within the organism”. This leads on to Langer’s main proposition: “Being felt”, she concludes, “is a phase of the process itself”. By “phase” Langer means one of the many modes in which something may appear without anything having meanwhile been added to or subtracted from it. As an illustration she considers the heating and cooling of iron: “When iron is heated to a critical degree it becomes red; yet its redness is not a new entity which must have gone somewhere else when it is no longer in the iron.

In Figure 12, although a perceptual process is going on, no peripheral sensory nerve-cells are involved. It all happens centrally in the association-areas of the brain. It is estimated that there are around 100,000,000,000 (1011) cells in the brain, and many of them can combine with many others, so there is plenty of room for patterns to be able to form. We cannot see ‘blackness’, only a black this or a black that. ‘Blackness’ is a concept which may be excited when a top hat is perceived, or Pat’s kitten, or ink, or whatever.

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