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Luck or Cunning? by Samuel Butler
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changes have become organic (p. 527).

The doctrine that the connections among our ideas are determined by
experience must, in consistency, be extended not only to all the
connections established by the accumulated experiences of every
individual, but to all those established by the accumulated
experiences of every race (p. 529).

Here, then, we have one of the simpler forms of instinct which,
under the requisite conditions, must necessarily be established by
accumulated experiences (p. 547).

And manifestly, if the organisation of inner relations, in
correspondence with outer relations, results from a continual
registration of experiences, &c. (p. 551).

On the one hand, Instinct may be regarded as a kind of organised
memory; on the other hand, Memory may be regarded as a kind of
incipient instinct (pp. 555-6).

Memory, then, pertains to all that class of psychical states which
are in process of being organised. It continues so long as the
organising of them continues; and disappears when the organisation
of them is complete. In the advance of the correspondence, each
more complex class of phenomena which the organism acquires the
power of recognising is responded to at first irregularly and
uncertainly; and there is then a weak remembrance of the relations.
By multiplication of experiences this remembrance becomes stronger,
and the response more certain. By further multiplication of
experiences the internal relations are at last automatically
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