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THE nervous system is a mass of living cells which has the extraordinary property of appearing to influence and be influenced by the mind. It is a material system somehow responsible for such non-material things as emotions and thoughts. These are in a category outside the range of mechanical explanation, and for this reason the working of the nervous system will never be fully explainable in terms of physics and chemistry. But some of the processes which take place in it can be treated in this way, and there will be no need to alter our methods of approach until we have gone a great deal further by the recognised routes. These routes are many, and the present article deals with only one of them. It deals with the analysis of the messages which travel along the nerve fibres—an analysis made possible by the recent development of the triode valve amplifier.
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ADRIAN, E. The Mechanism of the Nerves1. Nature 123, 167–169 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123167a0
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