As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted… - William James

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As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

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About William James

William James (11 January 1842 – 26 August 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism, and wrote influential books on the science of psychology, the psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism.

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Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

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