 Here is how this is supposed to work. If we say that experiences a and b are fused to form experience c, we should treat ‘fused’ as referring to a process in which a and b are superseded by c, not included in it. A and b have been replaced by c, in which their contents are connected, and they (a and b) no longer exist. As James put it, contrasting the unified consciousness of the whole alphabet with the several states involved in consciousness of each letter taken singly, 