Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
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- 1. Chapter 1: THE INTENSITY OF PSYCHIC STATES Quantitative differe... 1:50 Free
- 2. Chapter 2: THE MULTIPLICITY OF CONSCIOUS STATES THE IDEA OF DUR... 2:18
- 3. Chapter 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF CONSCIOUS STATES FREE WILL Dynam... 3:47
- 4. Chapter 1 β Part 1 of 12: THE INTENSITY OF PSYCHIC STATES It is usually admitt... 9:08
- 5. Chapter 1 β Part 2 of 12: For example, an obscure desire gradually becomes a d... 8:18
- 6. Chapter 1 β Part 3 of 12: By placing ourselves at this point of view, we shall... 8:09
- 7. Chapter 1 β Part 4 of 12: If there is a phenomenon which seems to be presented... 8:06
- 8. Chapter 1 β Part 5 of 12: Attention is not a purely physiological phenomenon... 7:43
- 9. Chapter 1 β Part 6 of 12: But it might be asked whether pleasure and pain, ins... 8:08
- 10. Chapter 1 β Part 7 of 12: Besides, even when the sensation remains purely repr... 8:35
- 11. Chapter 1 β Part 8 of 12: The experiments of Blix, Goldscheider and Donaldson... 8:14
- 12. Chapter 1 β Part 9 of 12: Look closely at a sheet of paper lighted e.g 8:50
- 13. Chapter 1 β Part 10 of 12: But let us leave these divergences on one side: let... 9:04
- 14. Chapter 1 β Part 11 of 12: Either you keep to what consciousness presents to yo... 8:33
- 15. Chapter 1 β Part 12 of 12: The idea of intensity is thus situated at the juncti... 4:17
- 16. Chapter 2 β Part 1 of 11: THE MULTIPLICITY OF CONSCIOUS STATES THE IDEA OF DUR... 8:36
- 17. Chapter 2 β Part 2 of 11: For we must understand what is meant by the of number 8:44
- 18. Chapter 2 β Part 3 of 11: In a word, it implies a contradiction 8:47
- 19. Chapter 2 β Part 4 of 11: But, just because we afterwards interpret this diffe... 8:35
- 20. Chapter 2 β Part 5 of 11: Now, when we speak of an order of succession in dura... 8:19
- 21. Chapter 2 β Part 6 of 11: When I follow with my eyes on the dial of a clock th... 8:35
- 22. Chapter 2 β Part 7 of 11: There is no need to assume a limit to the divisibili... 9:00
- 23. Chapter 2 β Part 8 of 11: It follows from this analysis that space alone is ho... 8:55
- 24. Chapter 2 β Part 9 of 11: Whilst I am writing these lines, the hour strikes on... 8:55
- 25. Chapter 2 β Part 10 of 11: This is not the case, however, and the very fact tha... 8:03
- 26. Chapter 2 β Part 11 of 11: I had already completed the present work when I read... 1:28
- 27. Chapter 3 β Part 1 of 15: THE ORGANIZATION OF CONSCIOUS STATES FREE WILL It is... 8:39
- 28. Chapter 3 β Part 2 of 15: In short, wherever we succeed in giving a mechanical... 8:33
- 29. Chapter 3 β Part 3 of 15: But let us admit that the absurdity is a mere appear... 9:01
- 30. Chapter 3 β Part 4 of 15: I rise, for example, to open the window, and I have... 8:01
- 31. Chapter 3 β Part 5 of 15: A violent anger roused by some accidental circumstan... 8:38
- 32. Chapter 3 β Part 6 of 15: In a word, if it is agreed to call every act free wh... 8:09
- 33. Chapter 3 β Part 7 of 15: In short, defenders and opponents of free will agree... 8:44
- 34. Chapter 3 β Part 8 of 15: On the other hand, if I try to give you an account o... 9:03
- 35. Chapter 3 β Part 9 of 15: What makes the confusion a natural and almost an una... 8:20
- 36. Chapter 3 β Part 10 of 15: Only one course will remain open to the determinist 8:54
- 37. Chapter 3 β Part 11 of 15: It will therefore be necessary to make a clean sweep... 8:54
- 38. Chapter 3 β Part 12 of 15: In truth, this second way of conceiving the relation... 8:53
- 39. Chapter 3 β Part 13 of 15: It is now time to add that the relation of inner cau... 9:26
- 40. Chapter 3 β Part 14 of 15: What is duration within us 8:45
- 41. Chapter 3 β Part 15 of 15: In this very confusion of true duration with its sym... 10:06
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THE INTENSITY OF PSYCHIC STATES
Quantitative differences applicable to magnitudes but not to intensities, 1-4; Attempt to estimate intensities by objective causes or atomic movements, 4-7; Different kinds of intensities, 7; Deep-seated psychic states: desire, 8, hope, 9, joy and sorrow, 10; Aesthetic feelings, 11-18: grace, 12, beauty, 14-18, music, poetry, art, 15-18; Moral feelings, pity, 19; Conscious states involving physical symptoms, 20: muscular effort, 21-26, attention and muscular tension, 27-28; Violent emotions, 29-31: rage, 29, fear, 30; Affective sensations, 32-39: pleasure and pain, 33-39, disgust, 36; Representative sensations, 39-60: and external causes, 42, sensation of sound, 43, intensity, pitch and muscular effort, 45-6, sensations of heat and cold, 46-7, sensations of pressure and weight, 47-50, sensation of light, 50-60, photometric experiments, 52-60, DelbΕuf's experiments, 56-60; Psychophysics, 60-72: Weber and Fechner, 61-65, DelbΕuf, 67-70, the mistake of regarding sensations as magnitudes, 70-72; Intensity in (1) representative, (2) affective states, intensity and multiplicity, 72-74.
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