I can at will “become” the cat in exactly the same sense that you can at will “become” your finger,—making its every feeling fully conscious, and its every slightest move completely under the control of your will.
You do it through the connecting nerves from the finger to the brain. I do it—well I don’t know HOW I do it. I don’t have any connecting nerves from the cat to “me” that I know of nor do I know “where” I do my thinking.
I don’t even use nerves to feel through unless they are in living things. I can be aware through the banister on the stairs just as keenly as through the hand that touches it.
I can feel the hand touch the rail and the rail touch the hand, just as you can feel your hand touch your chin and your chin touch your hand when you rub your chin. There’s no real differ
