Note 61 — X. ON SENSATION AND THE UNITY OF STRUCTURE OF SENSIFEROUS ORGANS.
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The following diagrammatic scheme may help to elucidate the theory of sensation:—
Mediate Knowledge
Immediate
Sensiferous Apparatus Knowledge
Objects of sense │ │ │ │ Receptive (sense Organ) Transmissive (Nerve) Sensificatory (Sensorium) │ │ │ │ Sensations and other States of Consciousness
│ │ │ │
Hypothetical Substance of Matter │ │ │ │ │ │ Hypothetical Substance of Mind
Physical World Mental World
Not Self Self
Non-Ego or Object Ego or Subject
Immediate knowledge is confined to states of consciousness, or, in other words, to the phenomena of mind. Knowledge of the physical world, or of one’s own body and of objects external to it, is a system of beliefs or judgments based on the sensations. The term “self” is applied not only to the series of mental phenomena which constitute the ego, but to the fragment of the physical world which is their constant concomitant. The corporeal self, therefore, is part of the non-ego; and is objective in relation to the ego as subject.