ABSTRACT
To the man in the street, “thinking” appears as a wraithlike process and is usually attributed to the workings of the “mind.” Steeped as he is in mentalistic thinking, this subtle action baffles description in any other terms. Fig. 39(A) shows what might be termed a “one-variable theory” of “thinking.” The comic-strip feature is intended to convey the etherealness with which “thinking” is enshrouded. The person who is relatively inactive and lying on a couch and recalls or “thinks of something” readily convinces himself that the “thinking” must have come from inside, so subtle is this class of action. The layman can conceive of “thinking” in no other manner than as something out of the blue that wells up inside him.
