FATALISM OR FREEDOM 



strated objectively, and the subjective ex- 

 perience. The latter is not a disembodied 

 function. It is part of the vital process. 



The function which I know introspec- 

 tively as thinking would appear to another 

 observer as protoplasmic activities of very 

 complicated sorts, provided he had ade- 

 quate technique to observe all that is going 

 on in my body. Some of the radical be- 

 haviorists claim that the complete objec- 

 tive account of the process as made by 

 such a hypothetical observer would include 

 all there is of it. But this I do not admit, 

 because another observer of my thinking 

 process is incapable of having the experi- 

 ence which I have and his "complete ob- 

 jective account" does not and cannot 

 express the whole of the situation. His 

 account is still incomplete, for my experi- 

 ence includes an awareness component 

 from which he is debarred by the nature 

 of things. This awareness as a function 

 of my protoplasm cannot at the same time 

 be a function of his differently organized 

 protoplasm. The experienced character 

 of subjectivity is just this personal quality 

 which cannot be shared with another. As 

 we are constituted this Is the way we ex- 



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