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Accedi per la revisione“Il cervello si sta svegliando e con esso la mente sta tornando. È come se la Via Lattea entrasse in una danza cosmica. Rapidamente la massa della testa diventa un telaio incantato in cui milioni di navette lampeggianti tessono uno schema dissolvente, sempre uno schema significativo sebbene mai permanente; un armonia mutevole di modelli secondari.”
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The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns.
Man On His Nature (1942), p. 178
Contesto: In the great head-end which has been mostly darkness springs up myriads of twinkling stationary lights and myriads of trains of moving lights of many different directions. It is as though activity from one of those local places which continued restless in the darkened main-mass suddenly spread far and wide and invaded all. The great topmost sheet of the mass, that where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thither. The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns. Now as the waking body rouses, subpatterns of this great harmony of activity stretch down into the unlit tracks of the stalk-piece of the scheme. Strings of flashing and travelling sparks engage the lengths of it. This means that the body is up and rises to meet its waking day.
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mente , schema , cervello , latte , secondario , armonia , via , milione , permanente , massaia , modello , testa , danza , telaioCharles Scott Sherrington 1
scienziato britannico 1857–1952Citazioni simili

da Saggi Scettici; citato in Bart Kosko, Il fuzzy pensiero
Saggi scettici

Origine: Da Reply to Criticism; in Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, a cura di Paul Schilpp, Library of Living Philosophers, Evanston, 1949, p. 684.
Origine: Pensieri di un uomo curioso, p. 120

Origine: Da Le perdute immagini di Salvatore Di Giacomo, in Salvatore Di Giacomo, Tutte le novelle, Grandi Tascabili Economici Newton, Roma, 1991, p. 25.