“In separating consciousness from the material world Plato has to ascribe the formative faculty of the mind to consciousness, whereas the formative processes of the human system are largely unconscious, that is, they operate below the dominant processes of the human hierarchy and only come to attention at special moments.”

—  Lancelot Law Whyte

Source: The Next Development in Man (1948), p. 203

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Scottish industrial engineer 1896–1972

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