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  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  THE 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  VOL. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  6 
  

  

  system 
  nor 
  even 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  my 
  cerebral 
  activities 
  are 
  apparently 
  

   associated 
  with 
  the 
  immediate 
  production 
  of 
  my 
  introspective 
  con- 
  

   sciousness, 
  but 
  only 
  a 
  restricted 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  cerebral 
  processes. 
  How 
  

   shall 
  you 
  interpret 
  the 
  immediately 
  outlying 
  cortical 
  activities? 
  I 
  

   might 
  answer 
  that 
  these 
  are 
  probably 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  your 
  attempt 
  to 
  

   conceive 
  physically 
  a 
  reality 
  which 
  I 
  call 
  my 
  subconscious 
  mind. 
  

   vSome 
  psychologists 
  have 
  experienced 
  a 
  great 
  deal 
  of 
  difficulty 
  in 
  con- 
  

   ceiving 
  the 
  subconscious 
  mind 
  actually 
  to 
  be 
  conscious. 
  But 
  from 
  

   the 
  point 
  of 
  view 
  of 
  psychical 
  monism 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  easy 
  thing 
  to 
  

   do. 
  Consciousness 
  is 
  treated 
  as 
  a 
  qualitatively 
  differentiated 
  sub- 
  

   stance 
  which 
  is 
  capable 
  of 
  forming 
  systems 
  of 
  greater 
  or 
  less 
  complexity 
  

   and 
  of 
  varying 
  degrees 
  of 
  coherence. 
  Just 
  as 
  your 
  consciousness 
  

   and 
  mine 
  are 
  both 
  conscious 
  yet 
  not 
  mutually 
  inclusive 
  nor 
  even, 
  it 
  

   would 
  seem, 
  connected 
  in 
  any 
  conscious 
  way, 
  so 
  my 
  introspective 
  

   field 
  of 
  awareness 
  and 
  various 
  depths 
  of 
  the 
  subconscious 
  may 
  all 
  be 
  

   conscious 
  without 
  being 
  co-conscious 
  or 
  uniting 
  to 
  form 
  one 
  integral 
  

   coherent 
  system. 
  

  

  If 
  you 
  follow 
  this 
  line 
  of 
  thought 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  what 
  may 
  be 
  called 
  

   the 
  psychical 
  environs 
  of 
  my 
  introspective 
  consciousness 
  you 
  will 
  

   be 
  led 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  my 
  consciousness 
  is 
  psychically 
  surrounded 
  by 
  

   a 
  system 
  of 
  psychical 
  entities 
  or 
  processes 
  bearing 
  the 
  same 
  relation- 
  

   ship 
  to 
  it 
  that 
  the 
  brain 
  processes 
  which 
  envelop 
  the 
  central 
  cortical 
  

   activities 
  bear 
  to 
  the 
  latter. 
  For 
  every 
  neurone 
  in 
  the 
  nervous 
  system 
  

   and 
  for 
  every 
  atom 
  in 
  each 
  neurone 
  there 
  must 
  be 
  a 
  real 
  psychical 
  

   fact 
  which 
  is 
  related 
  to 
  my 
  consciousness 
  just 
  as 
  my 
  neurones 
  and 
  

   their 
  atoms 
  are 
  related 
  to 
  my 
  central 
  brain 
  process. 
  My 
  field 
  of 
  

   introspective 
  consciousness 
  must, 
  in 
  other 
  words, 
  be 
  considered 
  the 
  

   focus 
  of 
  a 
  vast 
  psychical 
  nervous 
  system, 
  a 
  nervous 
  system 
  made 
  

   not 
  of 
  protons 
  and 
  electrons 
  but 
  of 
  atoms 
  of 
  sentiency. 
  Within 
  this 
  

   system 
  there 
  transpire 
  propagations 
  of 
  influence 
  converging 
  upon 
  

   and 
  diverging 
  from 
  my 
  introspective 
  field 
  which 
  correspond 
  exactly 
  

   with 
  the 
  neuro-muscular 
  response 
  processes 
  which 
  you 
  picture 
  to 
  

   yourself 
  when 
  you 
  are 
  thinking 
  of 
  the 
  operations 
  of 
  my 
  nervous 
  system 
  

   physically. 
  Your 
  physical 
  conception 
  of 
  this 
  response 
  is 
  indeed 
  clearly 
  

   nothing 
  but 
  a 
  symbolic 
  representation 
  of 
  the 
  real 
  psychical 
  response 
  

   system, 
  which 
  is 
  of 
  a 
  sort 
  which 
  was 
  functioning 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  

   the 
  consciousness 
  of 
  primitive 
  man 
  before 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  conceptions 
  of 
  

   modern 
  physiology 
  were 
  even 
  dreamt 
  of. 
  

  

  You 
  cannot 
  stop 
  here, 
  however, 
  you 
  must 
  go 
  on 
  to 
  consider 
  the 
  

  

  