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ing these. In the highest animals, however, the creature's 

 own action-rule penetrates further and further into the world- 

 as-sensed, and there assumes direction and control. 



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A new circle is introduced within the animal's own central 

 organ, for the support of the external function-circle, and 

 this connects the action-organ with the mark-organ. In this 

 way, the animal's own action-rule fits in with the indications 

 stimulated from without, and now serves the mark-rule as a 

 skeleton to which it may attach the external indications. 



Now for the first time there appear in the world-as-sensed 

 actual implements, possessing a function-rule. The world-as- 

 sensed of the simpler animals contained nothing but objects. 

 When the movements of the animal's own limbs enter the 

 mark-organ, it becomes possible for it to control its own 

 actions. But so long as the action-rule taken over from 

 the mark-organ is not used to form implements, there are 

 nothing but objects in the world-as-sensed. 



As we know, even objects are elaborate unities, extended 

 in space and in time. But implements arise in the world-as- 

 sensed only when the subject's own action-rule endows them 

 with a function : this action-rule combines all the properties 

 and capacities in such conformity with plan that they are 

 obliged to obey an inner rule, which we call the function- 

 rule of implements. So we human beings transfer our own 



