ABSTRACT
Once more we examine the brain pattern, but now from the standpoint of the mental record, rather than from that of the act it leads to, the habit. As this last, the habit, was found to be at the root of all life’s performances, so memory is the foundation of all mental processes. Furthermore, while it is convenient to distinguish between the mental reaction and the act, it must also be remembered that many performed acts are themselves but physical exhibitions of memory. Both depend upon the brain or nerve pattern, and we may truthfully state that from the simplest act to the most complex thought our facility depends upon our ability to remember. It depends upon our ability to dip down into our minds and there find, more or less consciously, a brain pattern which shall be useful in the solution of the problem before us. Whether this problem be a Whistling for the dog, or the forming of a judgment on internationalism, we require for its solution a power of recalling appropriate brain patterns.
