ABSTRACT
Cognizance of the external world can also be characterized as the people will now, with the same intention, consider consciousness of other things, thus objective cognizance. The thesis here is then this: what the intellect is in self-consciousness, thus subjectively, displays itself in consciousness of other things, thus objectively, as the brain; and what the will is in self-consciousness, thus subjectively, displays itself in consciousness of other things, thus objectively, as the entire organism. Perhaps it was Tiedemann who first compared the cerebral nervous system to a parasite. Actual willing is thus inseparable from doing, and that alone is an act of will, in the narrowest sense, which is stamped as such by the deed. By contrast, mere resolutions of will, until they are carried out, are only intentions and therefore a matter of the intellect alone. Actual willing is thus inseparable from doing, and that alone is an act of will, which is stamped as such by the deed.
