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is put on the doll an entirely new idea appears in the mind, the old one having completely gone to reside in the subconscious.
The same phenomenon occurs if one sees a house which is being dismantled. Outside in the world the house remains the same and is pulled down bit by bit. But in the mind no process of dismantling is taking place and none can possibly take place. There every moment a new image is called up which is replaced by another, coming up in response to the changing excitation. Even when you look at a mansion that is standing before you, you do not hold the same mental image for as much as two consecutive moments in your mind; the stimulus is continuous, and the conscious response, too, is continuous, from moment to moment. The delusion of stability of the mental image arises from the analogy of the stability of the object outside in the world.
Thus complex ideas are really all simple ones in their nature. But so far as memory formation is concerned, associations are formed by the groupings of the nervous filaments that have their representatives in the Central Organ of the Mind. Since nerves are not simple things like the states (ideas) of consciousness, an actual grouping of nervous fibres must take place if the girl that is dressing up her doll is to recall its idea in its absence later on. The part played by the sensory
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