However, it is far from clear that this satisfies Dewey’s further requirement that doing and undergoing be joined in perception: very often, the action of scratching my scalp or toying with my ring is one of which I am hardly conscious. In addition, as we have already noted, it seems that a certain quality of attention is required in order to give experience a sense of consummation or closure, and that this may be absent in some or most of my examples even when I am aware of what is happening: I do not have an expectation about the.
