[철학] 물질과 기억 독해 2

서문 (한글판 28~29p)

 

원문 : On verra comment nous essayons de le résoudre. D'une manière générale, l'état psychologique nous paraît, dans la plupart des cas, déborder énormément l'état cérébral. Je veux dire que l'état cérébral n'en dessine qu'une petite partie, celle qui est capable de se traduire par des mouvements de locomotion. Prenez une pensée complexe qui se déroule en une série de raisonnements abstraits. Cette pensée s'accompagne de la représentation d'images, au moins naissantes. Et ces images elles-mêmes ne sont pas représentées à la conscience sans que se dessinent, à l'état d'esquisse ou de tendance, les mouvements par lesquels ces images se joueraient elles-mêmes dans l'espace, - je veux dire, imprimeraient au corps telles ou telles attitudes, dégageraient tout ce qu'elles contiennent implicitement de mouvement spatial. Eh bien, de cette pensée complexe qui se déroule, c'est là, à notre avis, ce que l'état cérébral indique à tout instant. Celui qui pourrait pénétrer à l'intérieur d'un cerveau, et apercevoir ce qui s'y fait, serait probablement renseigné sur ces mouvements esquissés ou préparés ; rien ne prouve qu'il serait renseigné sur autre chose. Fût-il doué d'une intelligence surhumaine, eût-il la clef de la psychophysiologie, il ne serait éclairé sur ce qui se passe dans la conscience correspondante que tout juste autant que nous le serions sur une pièce de théâtre par les allées et venues des acteurs sur la scène.

 

영문판 : The reader will see how we try to solve it. Speaking generally, the psychical state seems to us to be, in most cases, immensely wider than the cerebral state. I mean that the brain state indicates only a very small part of the mental state, that part which is capable of translating itself into movements of locomotion. Take a complex thought which unrolls itself in a chain of abstract reasoning. This thought is accompanied by images, that are at least nascent. And these images themselves are not pictured in consciousness without some foreshadowing, in the form of a sketch or a tendency, of the movements by which these images would be acted or played in space, - would, that is to say, impress particular attitudes upon the body, and set free all that they implicitly contain of spatial movement. Now, of all the thought which is unrolling, this, in our view, is what the cerebral state indicates at every moment. He who could penetrate into the interior of a brain and see what happens there, would probably obtain full details of these sketched-out, or prepared, movements; there is no proof that he would learn anything else. Were he endowed with a superhuman intellect, did he possess the key to psycho-physiology, he (pg xviii) would know no more of what is going on in the corresponding consciousness than we should know of a play from the comings and goings of the actors upon the stage.

 

 

요약

- 일반적으로 심리적 상태들의 크기는 뇌의 상태를 넘어선다. 뇌의 상태란 심리적 상태의 작은 부분 (이 작은 부분이란 '심리적 상태를movements of locomotion 으로 번역하는 부분'을 말한다)

- 복잡한 추상적 사유는 시작되기에 앞서 이미지들의 표상을 동반한다

- 이미지는 의식에 바로 표상되지 않고 '소묘나 경향의 상태로 그려지는 운동들'의 단계로 시작된다.

- 이 운동들은 신체에 특정 태도들을 새긴다.