 Dewey contrasts aesthetic to “inchoate” and “anesthetic” experiences. These experiences, too, have a temporal dimension, but instead of exhibiting the unified development as an aesthetic experience, they include “holes”, “mechanical junctions”, and “dead centres” (AE: 43). The different phases of the experience merely follow each other, but in no way develop or build on the earlier phases. There is no sense of the kind of “continuous merging” that characterizes aesthetic experience. Due to their punctured and mechanical quality, inchoate and anesthetic experiences also lack the ordered development that is a condition of an experience’s aesthetic fulfillment. The anesthetic experience is a function either of loose succession or mechanical connection of parts. As Dewey explains,