THE DIRECT JUSTIFICATION OF ENTELECHY 2T9 



of our type a cerebral process is thus proved to become 

 different each different time of its happening, because the 

 brain itself has been changed by the former happening of this 

 process ; and the brain has changed in such a manner as 

 to allow the second portion of the conscious series to go on 

 as it does. Therefore the lamp is not only " seen ' but 

 is also identified as a lamp, and reminds me of all my 

 former experience. 



In other words, as in our former chapter, we have here 

 stated again what is to be regarded as actually cerebral in 

 the phenomenon of the " historical basis " and what is not. 

 The brain is certainly important ; it manifests, so to say, the 

 elements of the historical basis ; but it does not use them. 

 Its manifesting property may some day probably be shown 

 to depend on so-called physico-chemical peculiarities. In 

 this sense, lut in no other, may mechanical foundations of 

 " memory ' be spoken of. 



On " Identification " 



The question may arise here whether the second portion 

 of our conscious series beginning with " seeing the lamp ' 

 in our instance may not be broken into parts by single 

 elements which are " cerebral." Might not so-called associa- 

 tion, happening at different points of the second portion of 

 our series and most decidedly at the beginning, where the 

 " seen smoking lamp ' is " identified " as being a smoking 

 lamp, might not this association be the immediate conse- 

 quent to a cerebral antecedent, i.e. speaking idealistically, 

 to a conscious elemental event referred to "my brain," as 

 the last element of the first portion of the whole conscious 



