Project Gutenberg 2007-04-14 Public domain in the USA. 364 Binet, Alfred 1857 1911 The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps E-text prepared by Curtis Weyant, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Digital Case, the Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University (http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/) "The Mind and the Brain" by Alfred Binet is a scientific publication written in the late 19th to early 20th century. This work explores the intricate relationship between the mind and matter, focusing particularly on the nature of consciousness and sensation. Binet aims to establish distinctions between mental and physical phenomena, engaging with various philosophical perspectives while proposing his own insights on the subject. At the start of the book, Binet introduces the complex problem of differentiating between the mind and matter. He emphasizes the difficulty of this distinction when analyzed deeply, despite the apparent simplicity of contrasting thought with physical objects. Binet articulates that our understanding of the external world is confined to our sensations, which act as intermediaries between ourselves and the objects we perceive. He critiques common philosophical methods for defining these concepts, advocating for a more systematic approach that carefully examines both the characteristics of mental states and the sensory experiences that inform our knowledge of the material world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mind and body BF Text Psychology Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 486846 486525 2024-09-09T08:22:26.923935 2023-09-09T10:43:47.839073 text/html text/html 483701 2007-04-14T15:11:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 154896 2007-04-14T15:11:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 216308 2024-09-09T08:22:35.901836 application/epub+zip 219231 2024-09-09T08:22:28.932925 application/epub+zip 219231 2024-09-09T08:22:27.768894 application/epub+zip 433092 2024-09-09T08:22:40.941823 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 381340 2024-09-09T08:22:34.737871 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402704 2022-09-10T05:43:44.550989 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 407643 407365 2024-09-09T08:22:25.838928 2023-09-09T10:43:46.618076 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 407185 2007-04-14T14:55:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 141430 2007-04-14T14:55:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 407204 2007-04-14T14:55:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 141293 2007-04-14T14:55:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20851 2024-09-09T08:22:41.088819 application/rdf+xml 13203 2024-09-09T08:22:28.161897 image/jpeg 3804 2024-09-09T08:22:27.962887 image/jpeg 199270 2024-09-09T08:22:26.961880 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia