#nervous system

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#bodily #character #conscious #having #large

Pressure is calming to the nervous system. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#nervous #nervous system #pressure #system

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. ↗

— Learned Hand

#gratification #law #man #maximum #nervous

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#consciousness #considering #derive #forces #general

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#drop #energy #follows #game #life

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#diego #going #guitar #had #how

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ↗

— Dan Millman

#almost #creature #earth #i #i see

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#boy #central #comes #dog #feel

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds