ABSTRACT
The doctrine that all psychical changes are interpretable as incidents of the correspondence between the organism and its environment, appears to be at fault. The nervous states which are gone through instantaneously-as those by which the people infer the distances of the objects the people look at-do not enter into what they term Memory at all; the people are in fact unconscious of them, because they are not states of our consciousness that have any appreciable persistence. By further multiplication of experiences, the internal relations are at last automatically organized in correspondence with the external ones; and so, conscious memory passes into unconscious or organic memory. At the same time, a new and still more complex order of experiences is thus rendered appreciable; the relations they present occupy the memory in place of the simpler one; they become gradually organized; and, like the previous ones, are succeeded by others more complex still.
