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Afferent

adjective

Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS. "Afferent impulses"

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... vital and muscular processes in the body, finding expression in vital action. In its passive and negative state it is affected by impressions coming to it in different ways through the sense organs, resulting in nervous and mental action. These two functions are interdependent. It is the latter or afferent function with which we are now concerned. The range of our sense-perceptions puts us momentarily in relations with the material world, or rather, with a certain portion of it. For we by no means sense all that is sensible, and, as I have ...

— Second Sight - A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance • Sepharial

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