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A hungry animal feels restless, and is led by instinctive impulses to perform the movements which give it nourishment; but the act of seeking food is not sufficient evidence from which to conclude that the animal has the thought of food in its "mind." * For evidence as to birds' nests, cf. Semon, "Die Mneme," pp. 209, 210.
And there is hardly any limit to the vagueness of which images are capable. In such cases, the meaning of the image, if defined by relation to the prototype, is vague: there is not one definite prototype, but a number, none of which is copied exactly.* * Cf. Semon, Mnemische Empfindungen, chap. xvi, especially pp. 301-308.
Semon, "Die mnemischen Empfindungen," pp. 19-20. We may consider three different ways in which it has been sought to distinguish images from sensations, namely: By the less degree of vividness in images; By our absence of belief in their "physical reality"; By the fact that their causes and effects are different from those of sensations.
In 1894 Richard Semon further proved that these large eggs, rich in food-yelk, have a partial segmentation and discoid gastrulation, as I had hypothetically assumed in 1879; here again they resemble their reptilian ancestors. The construction of the mammary gland is also peculiar in the Monotremes.
In 1888, Sir Felix Semon, as an outcome of a collective investigation, established for all time that cretinism, myxedema and post-operative myxedema were one and the same.
The best writer on mnemic phenomena known to me is Richard Semon, the fundamental part of whose theory I shall endeavour to summarize before going further: When an organism, either animal or plant, is subjected to a stimulus, producing in it some state of excitement, the removal of the stimulus allows it to return to a condition of equilibrium.
Lasse didn't care very much about that ballad; but then came a terribly sad one about the sailor George Semon, who took a most tender farewell of his sweetheart "And said, When here I once more stand, We to the church will go hand in hand." But he never did come back, for the storm was over them for forty-five days, provisions ran short, and the girl's lover went mad.
Lasse didn't care very much about that ballad; but then came a terribly sad one about the sailor George Semon, who took a most tender farewell of his sweetheart "And said, When here I once more stand, We to the church will go hand in hand." But he never did come back, for the storm was over them for forty-five days, provisions ran short, and the girl's lover went mad.
True memory, as opposed to "immediate memory," applies only to events sufficiently distant to have come to an end of the period of fading. Such events, if they are represented by anything present, can only be represented by images, not by those intermediate stages, between sensations and images, which occur during the period of fading. * See Semon, "Die mnemischen Empfindungen," chap. vi.
Semon holds that engrams can be inherited, and that an animal's innate habits may be due to the experience of its ancestors; on this subject he refers to Samuel Butler. Semon formulates two "mnemic principles."
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