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tion to the first phenomenon of the last, purely spatial, 

 portion of it, both of them relating to the brain as a 

 spatial something. 



Spatial and Non-spatial Elements among those which do not 



Relate to the Brain 



But first we must analyse a little further what is meant 

 by saying that the second portion of our continuous series 

 of conscious events consists of spatial and of non-spatial 

 elements. Indeed, the middle portion of our conscious series, 

 which does not relate to the brain at all, does not absolutely 

 lack the characteristic of spatialifcy. Its first and its last 

 elements certainly do not lack this characteristic, the first 

 of them being the " optical lamp," and the last, as we have 

 said, probably a certain optical idea of my moving the 

 hand ; and some of the so-called associative phenomena 

 concerned in "identification 53 and " finding -similar" are 

 spatial too. But nevertheless, there remains a fundamental 

 difference between the last phenomenon of the first portion 

 of our series and the first phenomenon of its second portion, 

 in spite of their both being spatial. The first phenomenon 

 of the middle portion of the series does not relate to the 

 brain in any way, but is the lamp as an optical 

 phenomenon ; and a similar relation holds between the 

 last element of the middle portion, the optical idea of 

 moving my hand, if compared with the first phenomenon 

 of the last portion of our series which relates to the brain 

 again. Thus we understand that the middle portion of the 

 conscious series, so far as it relates to spatiality, does so in 

 quite another sense than do the first and the third portions, 



