Abstract
The first movements of newly born animals are responses to outward or inward excitations, and these excitations are effected mechanically without the intervention of the intellect (the memory), and have their foundation in inherited organisation. They are reflex movements. Under this head belong the pecking of young chickens, the opening of the bills of young birds on the return of their parents with food, the swallowing of the food placed in their gullets, the suckling of young mammals, and so on. It may be shown that the interference of the intellect not only does not enhance these movements, but frequently has a tendency even to disturb them.1
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Mach, E. (1986). The Concept. In: McGuinness, B. (eds) Principles of the Theory of Heat. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4622-4_32
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