ABSTRACT
If we attend to our reflective experience, we shall find that it provides a highly organized representation of a spatio-temporal world of objects. This represented world might conceivably be as delusive as a dream, lacking any relation to a genuinely external world, but it is certainly present to our consciousness. As a product of our reflective experience, it also involves a good deal of interpretation. The sounds it includes are the squeaks of chairs or the rustling of leaves; its odors appear as the fragrance of lilacs or the stench of garbage; its colored shapes are masses of clouds or groups of people; and so on. Athough this represented world is (all things considered) remarkably stable, it is not static. The objects it includes move about in a common space interacting with one another, altering with time, and occasionally ceasing to exist.
