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Hence, contiguity is given already at the very outset ; it is obscured by the attentive dissociation of an 'individual' from other contiguous individuals, so that one has only to relax the tension of attention to develop the entire picture.
The following diagram, taken from Bergson's Matter and Memory, and modified to suit our requirements, may be studied with advantage to understand the mechanism of association by contiguity:
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S is the point of sensory-motor activity, which travels unceasingly from P to F, i.e., from the past to the future, in the universe, represented by the plane U in the diagram. The cone ASB represents the entire capacity of memory which fills up its' records' at S, the point of sensory-motor activity, hence, of attention. Between the summit S and the base AB of the cone, then, there is room for all the modifications which the faculty of recollection receives unceasingly from the outer world. In this space are ranged, layer upon layer, all the im
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