ABSTRACT
Successive decompositions of the more complex phenomena of intelligence into simpler ones, and these again into still simpler ones, have at length brought down to the simplest; which humans find to be nothing else than a change in the state of consciousness. This is the ultimate element out of which alone are built the most involved cognitions. Consciousness is not simply a succession of changes, but an orderly succession of changes—a succession of changes combined and arranged in special ways. The changes form the raw material of consciousness ; and the development of consciousness is the organization of them. The lowest form of consciousness that can be conceived, is that resulting from the alternation of two states. While some state A, of the sentient subject, persists, there is no consciousness. While some other state B, persists, there is no consciousness.
