Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
our County-Council be only aware of one premise and another of the other premise, then neither of them nor any one else can draw any inference whatsoever from the given premises. Similarly, if one part of the brain be possessed of one premise and another part of the other premise, it will be impossible for a conclusion to be drawn from them. But since the ego is capable of drawing a logical conclusion, it follows that it is not the same thing as the brain, but a different kind of thing, that is to say, not a compound or composite substance or thing, but a simple, indivisible, that is, partless individuality.
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With respect to memory also, we can see that it cannot be a function of a hanging, perishable thing like the brain; for the brain that experiences a tion today will not be the same that will recollect it or its experience fifty years hence. Recollection would thus be a miracle, if the brain be the recollector of events; it would be tantamount to our recollecting the experiences of a being that existed 50 years back, in other words, to recollect having been some else, which, as Maher S. J., a great Roman Catholic thinker points out, is an absurdity pure and simple (see Maher's Psychology). It is thus evident that memory cannot be the function of that which is generated afresh every moment, like a stream, which consciousness must be if it is to be regardedas a function or secretion of the brain. In order that the events of
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