mneme
Americannoun
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Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
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(initial capital letter) the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.
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Etymology
Origin of mneme
1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic
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The theory of the mneme throws light on this subject, by introducing a new factor in the question, that of ecphoria of the cerebral engrams of the ancestors, accumulated in the hereditary mneme.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
But what does not exist in the hereditary mneme, that is to say in the energies of germs, inherited through thousands or millions of years, cannot be created in a few generations.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
They simply represent the internal or introspective side of central activity, and the brain obeys the natural laws of the mneme in the same way as the other organs.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
The phenomena of the hereditary mneme show clearly how ontogeny is the result of engraphia combined with selection, in the series of ancestors.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
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