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Optical Records and Relativity

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SINCE “Theory of Knowledge” opens up very wide issues, I sought to focus one salient point, namely, psychological reference. No doubt we here come down in the long run to the nature of mind and its relation to physiological events in the body. But my aim was to deal with the retinal record as what Prof. Whitehead calls a percipient event or a sensorium, that is, a state of the body. The question I raised is this: What is “the mind” in some way up against in vision? Is it the percipient event as record? Or is it the distant event with which this percipient event is co-related?

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MORGAN, C. Optical Records and Relativity. Nature 114, 681–682 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114681c0

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