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atomic changes follow in the brain. Just where the 

 final leap into consciousness occurs is not clear. We do 

 not know the last stage of the message in the physical 

 world before it became a sensation in consciousness. 

 This makes no difference. The physical entities have 

 a cyclic connection, and whatever intrinsic nature we 

 attribute to one of them runs as a background through 

 the whole cycle. It is not a question whether matter or 

 electricity or potential is the direct stimulus to the mind; 

 in their physical aspects these are equally represented 

 as pointer readings or schedules of pointer readings. 

 According to our discussion of world building they are 

 the measures of structure arising from the comparability 

 of certain aspects of the basal relations — measures which 

 by no means exhaust the significance of those relations. 

 I do not believe that the activity of matter at a certain 

 point of the brain stimulates an activity of mind; my 

 view is that in the activity of matter there is a metrical 

 description of certain aspects of the activity of mind. 

 The activity of the matter is our way of recognising a 

 combination of the measures of structure; the activity 

 of the mind is our insight into the complex of relations 

 whose comparability gives the foundation of those 

 measures. 



"What is Mr. X?" In the light of these considerations 

 let us now see what we can make of the question, What 

 is Mr. X? I must undertake the inquiry single-handed; 

 I cannot avail myself of your collaboration without first 

 answering or assuming an answer to the equally difficult 

 question, What are you? Accordingly the whole in- 

 quiry must take place in the domain of my own con- 

 sciousness. I find there certain data purporting to 

 relate to this unknown X; and I can (by using powers 



