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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“Either the bodily molecules blindly run, or they do not”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. V, The Romantic Reaction (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Whitehead rejects attempts to soften materialistic mechanism: if the body is pure mechanism, mental states make no difference to bodily action.
Citation: "Either the bodily molecules blindly run, or they do not" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. V, The Romantic Reaction (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q6)
