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[246] other. And WITHIN these levels, he sees a being which he recognizes as himself, if he sees himself in a mirror, namely man. Now the following thing happens: man, if he sees himself within this realm, or within his world, puts himself into one of these different levels which he calls fundamental levels. Then man becomes a part of matter, or a structural harmony of numbers, or he becomes an essence, or a center of spiritual life. In any case, he becomes something equal to those realities which he finds within the totality of his world. He finds himself as an element in the processes of physical reality, of biological, of psychological, of sociological, or spiritual reality. These processes are in his objective world---he looks at them---and then he finds himself as a part of them. For instance, he is a physical object, and he looks at himself as at stones and other inorganic realities; he looks at himself as a combination of atoms, perhaps with a central atom, but in any case, himself down to the level of those realities which he himself has abstracted of the whole of his world as the fundamental level. Or he thinks in more a terms, i.e., biological terms. And he sees himself as a biological organism subjected to the structures and laws of organicistic development---and that's ALL what he sees about himself. Or he sees a realm---which is usually called the psychological, the inner realm. He sees himself as the bearer of psychological processes which are going through him and the laws of association which he describes in the realm of psychological functions. Or he sees himself as a member in a sociological role determined by this whole.

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