Will and Propriation

Kant observes that each and every perception in the 'bundle' that for Hume constitutes the 'self' is 'my' perception. It follows that the process of becoming conscious in a perception can be characterized as a 'taking possession' of it. Accordingly, Consciousness has here been called 'Propriation', i. e. Consciousness, as a process of interiorizing its object, takes possession of it. As has been previously discussed, one significant departure here from the Humean and Kantian theories of cognition is that the immediate object of Consciousness is not some external item, but Will, i. e. one's Motility, including not only walking, etc., but looking at, listening to, etc., as well. So, on this model of Experience, 'one's ownmost' is neither one's death, as Heidegger has it, nor one's choosing, as Sartre asserts, but one's past, i. e. what one has hitherto done.