sense-cell

Updated: July 9, 2026

Thus we learn that the psychological property called intelligence is the ability to establish wide relations between numerous activities which are themselves of a more or less complex nature; and we find also that because these elements are ultimately nerve-cell and sense-cell reflexes, an intelligent response is quite as machine-like as any and all of its elements.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope