The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Given matter conscious in one part of itself of a shock in another part (i.e. knowing in what part of itself it is shocked) retaining a memory of each shock for a little while afterwards, able to feel whether two shocks are simultaneous or in succession, and able to know whether it has been shocked much or little—­given also that association does not stick to the letter of its bond—­and the rest will follow.