The Body-Mind Relation
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[Michael Polanyi's "The Body-Mind Relation" was a paper delivered at a 1966 conference sponsored by the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the University of California, San Diego .. The conference and the book that grew out of it, Man and the Sciences of Man, edited by William R. Coulson and Carl R. Rogers (Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1968) in which "The BodyMind Relation was published, were part of the Western Behavioral Science Institute's project investigating the philosophy of the behavioral sciences. "The Body-Mind Relation" is posted on the Polanyi Society web site with the permission of William R.Coulson and John C. Polanyi.]
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