[MD] F*cking with Fechner

[Krimel]

Just a side note on an earlier topic. It seems to me that if one is
hell-bent on tarnishing the memory of great minds by emphasizing their
eccentric and outmoded ideas to shore up one's own archaic notions; then one
should also give account of the progressive edges of their thinking on such
matters. Take for example this from James' introduction to Fechner's book on
the afterlife:

"But movements can be superimposed and compounded, the smaller on the
greater, as wavelets upon wave. This is as true and the mental as in the
physical sphere. Speaking psychologically, we may say that a general wave of
consciousness rises out of a subconscious background, and that certain
portions of it catch the emphasis, as wavelets catch light. The whole
process is conscious, but emphatic wave-tips of the consciousness are of
such contracted span that they are momentarily insulated from the rest. They
realize themselves apart, as a twig might realize itself, and forget the
parent tree. Such an insulted bit of experience leaves, however, when it
passes away, a memory of itself. The residual and subsequent consciousness
becomes different for its having occurred. On the physical side we say that
the brain-process that corresponded to it altered permanently the future
mode of the action of the brain."