ABSTRACT
This chapter explains suspicion about E. B. Holt's methodological approach—the designs he might have on the phenomena of consciousness as their being unacceptable for investigation by psychological science. The dualistic work holds that the total brain process produces the stream of consciousness one pulse after another. Accordingly, Holt's vision of psychology is prejudiced against consciousness. Consciousness frequently is conceived of as a centrally located, though proper, part of a perceiver's activity of responding to objects in the environment; for Holt, the connection of interest bridges two clearly different loci within the realistic world. In the explicit system of thought, the concept of consciousness would no longer perform a function, would no longer have any work to do, assuming some of the concept's responsibilities were not taken over in that explicit system by another word or by other words. The consciousnesses are said to be in themselves "neutral," since they may qualify as physical objects in accordance with physical science criteria.
