"But I shall content myself with telling you more about how the traces are imprinted on the internal part of the brain which is the seat of the memory."
— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
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Paris
Date
1664
Metaphor
"But I shall content myself with telling you more about how the traces are imprinted on the internal part of the brain which is the seat of the memory."
Metaphor in Context
Here I could add something about how the traces of these ideas pass through the arteries to the heart, and thus radiate through all the blood; and about how certain actions of a mother may sometimes even cause such traces to be imprinted on the limbs of the child being formed in her womb. But I shall content myself with telling you more about how the traces are imprinted on the internal part of the brain which is the seat of the memory.
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Citation
Descartes, René. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothof, and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Date of Entry
01/30/2012
