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would be that consciousness by the very idea of it continue in time and modifies as it continues. This would be true. An instantaneous cocsciousness would be nothing at all so would a prolonged consciousness that underwent no modification. The very idea of consciousness involved continuous change of it. This seems to be a tolerabele approach to a definition of consciousness. But I do not see that there woul be much sense in saying that in automation much have a soul far less than the soul consists essesntially in becoming an automation in motion. If the interpretation proposed is correct a parallel to the argument would be that from every point on a line there ar two ways in which a particle might depart and therefore a fine line cannot be terminated because all the extremity there would be but one way. In ceasing to be it would cease to be a line. However we undersatnd Plato's