Will and Schematization

Will indeterminately diversifies the course of Experience, requiring, in order to become actualized as a concrete performance, structuring. Usually, the representation of a purpose serves as such an organizing influence, thereby encouraging the traditional subordination of Formal Causality to Teleological Causality. However, the example of an improvising musician demonstrates the independence of the former from the latter--the player produces new notes while, concomitantly, organizing the flow, without any prepared arrangement to satisfy--an example that can be generalized to the performance of any type of act. This process of creative structuring can be called 'Schematization', evoking the Kantian Schematism, which, as either subordinate to the Understanding, or as 'free', is, however, cognitive, only. In other words, Kant does not consider that Schematization is effective in a motile context, combining with Will to produce concrete action, nor does he consider that cognitive Schematism might be a special case of motile Schematization.