Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE HOLY TRINITY.
593 Passing on to a consideration of memory, it will be seen that it differs from perception only in so far that the stimulus which occasions it does not proceed from an object in the outside world, but arises within the mind itself. The self-same mental elements that vibrate in perception are also thrown into vibration in recollection, the imperfections of which are due to the very nature of will itself. For, in will impressions blend and interpenetrate to such an extent that often it is impossible to isolate and recall any particular sensation whole and entire. Hence, the images which are constructed with the aid of these recalled sensations are generally mutilated, wrongly grouped, and full of false detail.
This should not happen if there was a place where memory-images were stored, as pictures in a gallery, or photos in an album.
Besides, whenever there is inner excitation of the senses, as in intense concentration, mind forms and projects into external space such distinct and life-like images as deceive the individual. These are known as hallucination, although to the individual concerned they are quite real, the most striking cases being those in which the senses of sight and touch are excited at the same time. Whence could these hallucinatory images arise, unless they be made there and then by the mind ?
Even the complementary after-image, which is seen after looking at an object with a certain amount of attention, only goes to show that it owes its existence to the activity of mind, and is formed there and then. It certainly does not prove the preservation of memory in the form of images in the brain substance.
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