It shows that the brain is not important to the proper performance of the functions of assimilation and disassimilation—or those of organic life.
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Disassimilation
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His experiments show “that about four-fifths of our disassimilations are the result of transformations within the body, comparable to the oxidation of alcohol, and that the remaining one-fifth of the disassimilations are formed at the expense of the living tissues themselves, free of all demands on foreign oxygen."
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There is a white-black substance which when acted upon by the visible rays of light undergoes disassimilation and sets up nerve impulses that arouse in the brain the sensation of white.
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Judging from the autobiographical texts of these three authors, Natives often mixed assimilation with a degree of disassimilation.
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