that new situations and the new responses they prompt are kept in the light of consciousness; old and well practised ones are no longer so. Hundreds and hundreds of manipulations and performances of everyday life had all to be learnt once, and that with great attentiveness and painstaking care. Take for example a small child’s first attempts in walking. They are eminently in the focus of consciousness; the first successes are hailed by the peformer with shouts of joy. When the adult laces his boots, switches on the light, takes off his clothes in the evening, eats with knife and fork …, these
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