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mined by our attention, and our attention is 

 determined by our organic needs. 



Our conscious and voluntary reactions to 

 the world outside us are similarly determined 

 by reference to what is required for our 

 organic maintenance. Hence teleological 

 determination with reference to organic need 

 extends to the whole of our experience. It is 

 this which gives unity and coherence to the 

 world of our conscious experience. Kant saw 

 clearly the necessity of such a unifying factor 

 in experience when he referred to the ' syn 

 thetic unity of apperception ' as implied in all 

 experience, in addition to the categories which 

 he postulated. 



What is implied in this teleological deter 

 mination of the world of our experience ? It 

 is clear, in the first place, that the teleological 

 determination is only imperfect. The things 

 in the external world which supply our 

 organic needs or hinder their satisfaction 

 appear to have also an existence of their own 

 which has no reference to us or our needs. 

 A block of stone remains a block of stone 

 whether it is of immediate interest to me as 

 part of my house, or as just about to fall on 



