"If you really then think that, every process, termed mental, in man, is in fact nothing more than so many distinct nervous vibrations, then I readily grant that matter may think, for undoubtedly every stretched cord, when touched, will vibrate; and I will farther grant, that a fiddle, in that sense may likewise be stiled a thinking substance."
Letters on Materialism and Hartley's theory of the Human Mind, Addressed to Dr. Priestley, F. R. S.
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