Note 877

According to the classical view concerning classical inter-molecular forces, the individual parts of the organismic molecule must engage in a, spatially graded and strongly decreasing with distance, continuous interaction. But something functionally essential hardly results primarily from this, because small and large organisms do not differ in this respect, but do so [differ] as to their actions and performances. So these must be based upon other effects of interactions. They go through the true internal chief-bonding relationships, with the special feature that, as counterpart of the centralized "reflex" of consciousness, a centrifugal reflex, constituted by a permanent-resonance and very fast conduction, expands across the whole. These reflexes are the consequence exclusively of a true uni-molecular constitution, and the inter-molecular forces, which, naturally, are present too, only have an auxiliary and framework function, possibly also a very important overall stabilization function. (We, for the moment, decline to say in what way the inner special structure may influence the nature of the inter-molecular forces).

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