Experience is a whole, but it can be split into experiencer and experienced. This is only one of the ways it splits under the pressure of its internal excess. Each such split produces a pattern of related distinctions, ideas which may be subjected to rigourous development and resulting conflicts and compromises, reversals and submissions. Experience and thought are inseparable, thought being the general name given to the activity of the experiencer after this particular split has been effected. Thought is thus a name for the subjectivity of being. It is a symptomatic fact about inquiries of this kind that matters of the most astonishingly unlikely kind must be extracted from a medium of overwhelming self-evidence. In this respect they resemble the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?'