Note 30 — V Sensory Organization

One chapter of Die physischen Gestalten in Ruhe und im stationären Zustand has the title: “Denn was innen, das ist aussen.” Should these words of Goethe have produced the misapprehension? Who reads the chapter will see at once that that title refers to the similarity between sensory experience and the physiological processes accompanying it, not to the relationship between organic processes and the environment (cf. § 181).