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Rope:

"To present my scientific differentiation

Of brain and mind

I proceed as follows--

First I say:

'I take a piece of rope and tense it.'

As I purposely tense it

I inadvertently make it tauter.

But I was not tensing the rope

For the purpose of making it tauter,

I was only trying to engage the rope.

Its girth is inadvertently contracting and

The rope is also inadvertently getting harder.

"In contracting and getting harder

The rope is going into radial compression

In a plane at ninety degrees to the axis of

My consciously purposeful tensing... "

Citations

1. BRAIN & MIND, p.124 May '72