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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“The effect of physiology was to put mind back into nature”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. IX, Science and Philosophy (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Discussing the shift from Descartes to William James, Whitehead credits neurology and biochemistry with treating cognition as an activity of the whole organism.
Citation: "The effect of physiology was to put mind back into nature" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. IX, Science and Philosophy (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q8)
