SOURCE: "Professor Alexander's Proofs of the Spatio-Temporal Nature of Mind," in The Philosophical Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 3, May, 1940, pp. 309-24.

In the following essay, Bateman examines Alexander's proofs of the spatial and temporal nature of mind: his argument from introspection and his argument from the spatio-temporal properties of the neural processes.

According to Alexander, Space-Time is the simplest form of reality, out of which all finite existents—including minds—are made. Growth and creative process flow from the intrinsic nature of this primordial stuff; and the ensuing spatio-temporal configurations, with their differences of complexity and pattern, give rise to new levels of existents having new qualities, such as materiality, life and consciousness. While an emergent quality is grounded in the 'lower' level of existence from which it emerges, it is a new order of existent, unpredictable from the nature of its components and possessing its own special laws...