Concept

Motor system

Overview

part of the central nervous system that is involved with movement

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For suppose the sensori-motor system is a system like the others, of the same rank as the others. Borne by the whole of the organism, it will wait until an excess of chemical potential is supplied to it before it performs any work.
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
States what Motor system is; names Motor system several times.
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We see, therefore, that if between a particular impression and a particular motion associated with it, there is established a connexion producing what is called reflex action, the law that motion follows the line of least resistance, and that, if the conditions remain constant, resistance in any direction is diminished by motion occurring in that direction, supplies an explanation. Without further details it will be…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
States what Motor system is.
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According to Proposition XXV., a moving agent must exist which has moved the substance of all existing transient things and enabled it to receive Form. The cause of the motion of that agent is found in the existence of another motor of the same or of a different class, the term “motion,” in a general sense, being common to four categories (Prop. IV.). This series of motions is not infinite (Prop. III.); we find that…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Close in meaning to Motor system; the term itself is not named.
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