First published in 1880 "Unconscious Memory" was largely written to show the relation of Butler's views to Hering's, and contains an exquisitely written translation of the Address. Hering does, indeed, anticipate Butler, and that in language far more suitable to the persuasion of the scientific public. It contains a subsidiary hypothesis that memory has for its mechanism special vibrations of the protoplasm, and the acquired capacity to respond to such vibrations once felt upon their repetition. Samuel Butler (4 or 5 December 1835 - 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English...
First published in 1880 "Unconscious Memory" was largely written to show the relation of Butler's views to Hering's, and contains an exquisitely writt...
