ABSTRACT
For with every emergence of an act of will from the obscure depths of our inner being into cognizant consciousness, there occurs an immediate passage of the thing in itself, lying outside time, into the phenomenon. Accordingly, although the act of will is only the closest and most distinct phenomenon of the thing in itself, it nevertheless follows from this that, if all other phenomena could be cognized by us just as immediately and inwardly, we would have to regard them precisely as that which in us is will. Therefore, in this sense assert that the inner essence of every thing is will and call will the thing in itself. In this way, Kant's doctrine of the incognizability of the thing in itself is modified to the extent of saying only that the latter is not absolutely and fundamentally cognizable. The brain is however, as is the entire organism, a product or phenomenon, which alone is imperishable.
