We earlier dealt with the fusion and complication of representations, i.e., with the laws governing the formation of representational series and masses. We are therefore already familiar with the laws of the assimilative process called “apperception”, but only from the “outside”, observing the representational masses objectively. To understand the assimilative process as “apperception” proper, we must now recall that representations are not (merely) represented “objects” of consciousness (repraesentāta), but (also)—as perturbations of the soul—representing “subjects” of consciousness (repraesentantia). In other words, representations, as bewußt or conscious,[66]  must be (also) conceived as “observing”, of “being-aware” (beobachtend). Always keeping this peculiar characteristic of Herbartian representations in mind, let us consider his interpretation of the phenomenon that has been (in his view) mistakenly called “inner sense” or a “faculty of self-observation [Selbst-Beobachtung, i.e., introspection]”. He writes: 