ABSTRACT
Consciousness can thus be described in terms both of feeling and knowing. It may be most simply defined as the sense of experience; and as with other lines of sense-development, what began as feeling has become a means of cognition of such far-reaching extent and importance that we are now apt to think of it in terms of cognition alone. If interest is the outcome of associations established by the repetition of successful responses, attention, with the fuller development of consciousness that it has brought about, is the outcome of errors. By self-consciousness—as a psychological term it is to be clearly distinguished from its use in ordinary speech—is meant something more than the feeling of self which in some dim form must be present in consciousness from the first. The function of consciousness, at all stages of its growth, has been to serve as a means of integrating the activities of the individual.
