Translation of Le Temps, quatrième dimension de l'esprit.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Internal Temporal Element of the Nervous System, Considered as an Evaluating Factor in Man's Active Behavior in Health or Mental Diseases.

"This book is not about time as we cope with it on our watches; it is about man's interior time, the action or reaction time within the brain on which its functioning depends. It is this time factor that determines our subjective experience of time and that, Dr. Wallis says, 'appears to be a crucial element for programming the information received from the outer world'--for memory reception, storage and evocation, for the functioning of intelligence and the making of decisions. Time: Fourth Dimension of the Mind discusses the creation of man's time sense, the product of a brain which operates like an electronic computer--words, spoken or unspoken, constitute its symbolic code--its ten billion cells, neurons, and synapses acting as transistors, diodes, valves, and electric circuits. It discusses as well disturbances of the time sense in certain psychoses and in old age and suggests a new interpretation of neural mental disturbances, opening the way to a more hopeful prognosis and a new approach in their treatment. The source of man's time sense, Dr. Wallis says in this pioneering book, is 'one unique electric process which contains the secret of life.'"--inside front flap.

Also issued online.

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