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The Mind and the Brain 


The Mind and the Brain 
By Alfred Binet (1857-1911) 
being the authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor 


“This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. 
Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do not go deeply into it; nothing is more difficult 
when you analyse it a little. At first sight, it seems impossible to confuse things so far apart as a thought and a 
block of stone; but on reflection this great contrast vanishes, and other differences have to be sought which are less 
apparent and of which one has not hitherto dreamed.” (from The Mind and the Brain) Total running time: 
06:49:51. 


01 — The Definition of Matter: Introduction — 00:08:19 - Read by J. M. Smallheer è 02 — The Definition of Matter: 
Our Knowledge of External Objects only Sensation — 00:21:54 - Read by J. M. Smallheer e 03 — The Definition of 
Matter: The Mechanical Theories of Matter are only Symbols — 00:22:19 - Read by J. M. Smallheer @ 04 — The 
Definition of Matter: Answers to some Objections, and Summary — 00:10:16 - Read by J. M. Smallheer e 05 — 
The Definition of Mind: The Distinction Between Cognition and It’s Object — 00:07:09 - Read by Carl Manchester 
e 06 — The Definition of Mind: Definition of Sensation — 00:26:19 - Read by Accent è 07 — The Definition of 
Mind: Definition of the Image — 00:16:45 - Read by Kalynda e 08 — The Definition of Mind: Definition of the 
Emotions — 00:11:59 - Read by Carl Manchester @ 09 — Definition of the Consciousness — The Relation Subject- 
Object — 00:12:33 - Read by Anita Roy Dobbs e 10 — Definition of the Consciousness — Categories of the 
Understanding — 00:27:55 - Read by Anita Roy Dobbs e 11 — Definition of the Consciousness — The Separability 
of the Consciousness from its Object — Discussion of Idealism — 00:10:06 - Read by Anita Roy Dobbs e 12 — 
Definition of the Consciousness — The Separation of the Consciousness from its object — The Unconscious — 
00:13:22 - Read by Anita Roy Dobbs e 13 — The Definition of Mind: Definitions of Psychology — 01:00:48 - Read 
by Leon Mire è 14 — The Union of the Soul and the Body: The Mind Has an Incomplete Life — 00:20:18 - Read by 
Cynthia Zocca @ 15 — The Union of the Soul and the Body: Spiritualism and Idealism — 00:15:58 - Read by Carl 
Manchester @ 16 — The Union of the Soul and the Body: Materialism and Parallelism — 00:32:54 - Read by J. M. 
Smallheer e 17 — The Union of the Soul and the Body: Modern Theories — 00:14:01 - Read by Dale Curwin è 18 
— The Union of the Soul and the Body: Conclusion — 00:41:43 - Read by Lucy Burgoyne e 19 — The Union of the 
Soul and the Body: Recapitulation — 00:35:13 - Read by Gesine 


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Human Services (2008). Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain. 


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