Herbart’s transition from psycho-statics to mechanics exhibits a counterintuitive order similar to that encountered above, in calculating the inhibition sum before calculating inhibition ratio (i.e., calculating the load before its distribution). Thus, we should note that psycho-statics describes the laws of a state reached after the laws of psycho-mechanics have operated on a given set of representations. To clarify: considered per se, representations are uninhibited, radiating at full strength (SW V: 338; PsW: 208). When two or more representations appear at once in consciousness, they conflict, and over time inhibit or dim each other’s radiance until they reach equilibrium (SW V: 338).[39]  That balanced end-state, and the distribution of the inhibitory load upon each representation at that end-state, is the concern of psycho-statics. Psycho-mechanics, by contrast, studies the laws of representational motion, i.e., the laws governing the preceding conflict between representations that leads to equilibrium (SW IV: 371). By “motion”, Herbart means the falling (and rising) of representations with respect to the static threshold, or, more precisely, their dimming (and brightening) with respect to the threshold of awareness (SW V: 338, 339; Boudewijnse, et al. 1999: 181, ff.; Weiss 1928: 84. Cf. esp. Felsch 1904: 194, f.).