"'A lot's been learned since Freud, both from the psychiatric and the neurological angle. Ultimately, those two are interchangeable.'" (p. 155)
They are not. How can they be? A mental state and a neurological interaction are qualitatively different although causally connected. The connection must be studied but is not simple identity.
Dalgetty explains his "sensitivity." In mid-explanation:
"Dalgetty paused. The wind flowed and muttered beyond the wall." (p. 154)
As ever. Flowing wind is the natural processes that scientists try to understand but muttering wind suggests the difficulty of understanding. Nature does not speak clearly but mutters. The Psychotechnic Institute has found only a small part of the truth and will be unable to carry through its project.
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