ABSTRACT

E: Karl could you please talk of the idea you have about a direct relationship between World 3 and World 2 by the reference to Euclid’s theorem that you have just told me.

P: I think that this problem is very important. Although, of course, there are some World 1 brain processes going on all the time while World 2 is awake, and especially when it is busy in solving problems or in formulating problems, my thesis is not only that World 2 can grasp World 3 objects, but that it can do so directly; that is to say, although World 1 processes may be going on (in an epiphenomenal manner) at the same time, they do not constitute a physical or World 1 representation of those World 3 objects which we try to grasp.