ABSTRACT
In the consideration of heredity there is not much room for confusion. Presumably all heredity is physical, even when the result is psychological (for instance, a tendency towards a depressive or a hysterical temperament passed on from parent to child). The basis of psyche is soma, and in evolution the soma came first. The psyche begins as an imaginative elaboration of physical functioning, having as its most important duty the binding together of past experiences, potentialities, and the present moment awareness, and expectancy for the future. Thus the self comes into existence. The psyche has of course no existence apart from brain and brain functioning.
