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capacity to feel one's affections and impressions. Intelligence and sensation or feeling are the two phases or functions of the same entity, of the power that makes one aware of the conditions of one's being, that is to say of the power of self awareness. Sensation and feeling are as much states of consciousnesses as intellectual conceptions and verbal ideas that pass by the name of knowledge. There are not two different kinds of sensitivenesses or consciousnesses in nature. Intelligence is one, whether it be manifested through instinct or intellect; and sensitiveness is present all along and is never altogether estinct or destroyed though its manifestation be reduced to the barest susceptibility to tactile sensations alone for the time being. There are certain conditions that are necessary for the manifestation of instinct and intelligence, some sort of an instrument of control or self-control is needed to rise above a purely automatic existence. Here you have your brain which is imposed, like a loop, over the sensory and motor systems to enable the ego to attend to the incoming sensory stimulus from without and to regulate or control the motor movements of the organism in response. But it is a fallacy to imagine that sensitiveness originated with the brain, For automatic response in brainless creatures does not negative the existence of consciousness; it is accompanied by sensation and feeling. Sensation and feeling are not purely physical in their nature; their type is psychic, though they may not be presided over by deliberative
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