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causes, disease, hynotic suggestion and the like ; but that is not the same thing as making out consciousness to be like a board of councillors, * at a county council meeting.
If a composite substance like the brain can produce individuality at any time, it must be the individuality of an atom of its material, for nothing else in the brain has a claim to individuality; but we have already agreed to reject the hypothesis of an atomic soul.
The notion of a County-Council' chamber of consciousness is further negatived by the fact of logical inference which becomes possible only where the conclusion is to be drawn by the same unit of consciousness as is in possession of the premises from which it is to be drawn, not otherwise. For if one councillor of
The individuality of the soul is not affected by the fact that there are to be found more living beings than one in certain organisms. As Jainism points out, there are two kinds of organisms, namely, firstly, those that are inhabited by one soul each, and, secondly, those that resemble a colony of souls. The characteristic of the latter is that they generally have a common mouth or share certain other organs of their bodies in common, but are otherwise separate and distinct from each other. They certainly do not combine to form one soul by intensification or any other process or method ; and the destruction of one or more of them does not necessarily mean the destruction of them all. They are like the Hungarian twins one of whom died without in any way affecting the individuality of the other, although the latter must have suffered grievously, in mind and body both, from the demise of one so closely affiliated to her as to share her lower limbs.
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