visceral-neuronic

Updated: June 28, 2025

For from day to day, from hour to hour, we are conscious either of a desire to be active, a feeling of capacity or the reverse. We depend on that feeling of capacity to guide us, and though it is organic, it has its mysterious disappearances and marvelous reenforcements. It arises, so we assume, from the visceral-neuronic activities, subconsciously, in the sense we have used that word.

Abraham Myerson - The Foundations of Personality