(figuratively) An instance of figuratively bouncing something or someone back and forth.
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To be conscious is to be subject to just such a ping-pong of recurring nervous activities that effect muscle tone on one side and brain discharge on the other.
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1909, Thaddeus L. Bolton, “On the Efficacy of Consciousness”, in Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge, Wendell T. Bush, editors, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methodshttp://books.google.com/books?id=uRhRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA424, volume 6, New York: The Science Press, page 424: