ABSTRACT
Relation of soul and body was undeniable, but that it was a parallel or equivalent relation he denied most emphatically. Henri Bergson proceeds to state and to criticize some of the mischievous ideas which arise from Parallelism. There is the idea of a brain-soul, of a spot where the soul lives or where the brain thinks—which the authors have not quite abandoned since Descartes named the pineal gland as the seat of the soul. Bergson however has more to assert than merely the inadequacy and falsity of Parallelism or Epiphenomenalism. Telepathy and the sub-conscious mental life combine to make us realize the wonder of the soul. Bergson insists strongly on the unity of our conscious life Merely associationist theories are vicious in this respect: they try to resolve the whole into parts, and then neglect the whole in their concentration on the parts. The brain and the body in general are instruments of the soul.
