Note 22 — IX BUDDHISM AND THE PROBLEM OF BIOLOGY

“The practice of treating the unanalysed I-complex as an indivisible unity frequently finds scientific expression in singular fashion. First of all, the nervous system is set apart from the body as being the seat of sensation. In the nervous system, again, the brain is picked out as likeliest to be such a seat. And, finally, in order to save the supposed psychic unity, search is made in the brain for a point as the seat of the soul. Views so crude as these, however, are but ill adapted to indicate beforehand even in roughest outline the path of future investigation as to the connection between the physical and the psychical.” Comparison should also be made with the introductory remarks to the chapter on “Der Sitz des Bewusstseins” in Bunge’s Physiologie.