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part of my onto-brain which carries on its operations wholly or 

 partly outside my consciousness. 



The general outcome of the whole process is that the tekme- 

 rion as it appears within my consciousness is a perception which 

 includes a portion of the original group of sensations, but pro- 

 foundly modified by instinctive judgments about space relations 

 that come directly from the synergos and only indirectly from 

 sources more remote. Instead of the complicated shadow which 

 fell on a very broken surface, I have by synthesis, and by the 

 transformation of what was due to irregularities in the surface, 

 got instead a much simpler shadow, which may be likened to the 

 shadow which would fall on a flat screen. 



Again, if the screen I can use is a small one, and can at any 

 one time catch only a part of the shadow, it would be possible, by 

 combining into one picture what is thus successively presented, 

 to come at what the shadow would appear on a screen of ade- 

 quate size. This may be taken as an illustration of what I gain 

 by the important further synthesis by which perceptions are con- 

 ceived as built together into the objects of phenomenal nature. 



Thus, by the synthesis of the first order, which results in per- 

 ceptions, and still more by the synthesis of the second order, which 

 results in the phenomenal world, everything which is due to the 

 fluctuations and irregularities of the channels through which in- 

 formation from the autic universe comes to me, or to their limited 

 scope whereby they can only convey a small portion of the mes- 

 sage at one time, is as much as possible eliminated ; while all that 

 has relation to what is going on in the part of the universe from 

 which the message comes, is simplified and freed as much as 

 possible from extraneous matter. It has become, as it were, the 

 complete shadow on a screen that is both flat and of adequate size. 

 But it must not be forgotten that the world of natural objects is 

 after all only the shadow of a greater reality. 



It is impossible to overrate the importance of the transforma- 

 tion which has taken place through synthesis. In virtue of it the 

 sensations that present themselves in our modern minds seem to be 

 located about in space. They become perceptions, that is, they are 

 sensations which have acquired the appearance of having space 

 relations to one another. Our sensations have become endowed 

 with this appearance in various degrees, or at least with different 



