Will and Perception

As the fundamental principles of Experience, Will and Consciousness combine to constitute it in an infinite variety of different ways, often with one or the other predominating, but not to the absolute exclusion of the subordinate factor. Now, Will is self-exteriorization, and Consciousness is self-interiorization. So, experiences that tend to extroversion are expressions of the predominance of Will, while Consciousness predominates in the more introspective experiences. Thus, Perception, i. e. the awareness of an external object, is, on this model, constituted by a predominance of Will over Consciousness, despite the efforts of many systems to gloss over the Motility entailed in it. By attempting to characterize Perception as a direct relation between incorporeal mind and the external world, they neglect to explain how an inward-directed process such as Consciousness becomes everted.