Of the word, since he experiences sensations and perceptions. When man unfocuses his mind, he may be said to be conscious in a subhuman sense Sensory-perceptual mechanism and of any random, associational connections it To any chance stimulus of the immediate moment, at the mercy of his undirected His mind to a full, active, purposefully directed awareness of reality-or heĬan unfocus it and let himself drift in a semiconscious daze, merely reacting The act of focusing one’s consciousness is volitional. Thinking requires a state of full, focusedĪwareness. In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to It is a faculty that man has to exercise by choice. Reason is the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by Semi-conscious daze, at the mercy of whatever associational whims the unfocused Maintain a state of full awareness or to drift from moment to moment, in a Man has the choice to think or to evade-to

The pre-conceptual level of consciousness is nonvolitional volitionīegins with the first syllogism. Man has to initiate it, to sustain it and to bear responsibility for its

Thought it is not automatic nor instinctive nor involuntary nor infallible. Process of abstraction, and of concept-formation is a process of reason, of Perceptions into conceptions by a process of abstraction, is a feat that manĪlone has the power to perform-and he has to perform it by choice.

Sensations are integrated into perceptionsĪutomatically, by the brain of a man or of an animal. Man’s consciousness shares with animals the first two stages of itsĭevelopment: sensations and perceptions but it is the third state,Ĭonceptions, that makes him man.

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