But the distant-parts of the physical world are at all times absent from us, and form conceptual objects merely, into the perceptual reality of which our life inserts itself at points discrete and relatively rare. And from our viewpoint this may be true. But the temporal and spatial dimensions of the universe can only appear paradoxical from this point of view. The foregoing attempts to define this universe have concentrated largely on behaviors, the way the universe acts. It is tangled up with consciousness, it is chaotic, it is constantly transitional and terminal, it is widely discontinuous.
Unity seems to have been banished to the fringes.
It is the ground from which our intelligence springs and the base for his humanistic psychology. This is a demonstration of intelligence at work in the universe of pure experience. James seems comfortable with the notion that the origin of intelligence was an evolutionary necessity - as an adaptation for the safety and security of the whole organism within a complex environment. A close look at James's demonstration reveals a three-fold process. First, the experient is just that - experiencing.