His thoughts could be more or less personal depending on factors which were felt to be impersonal even if largely somatic. The personal quality was formed out of the evanescent mobilisation of a huge bank of implicit assumptions and associations but it did not reveal these or even less reveal a nugget of something enduring inside them, it was simply a voice and a tone that emerged from this mass of potentials. The display could be quite convincing, naturally enough since exacting credibility was one of its conditions for survival, but this only obscured the fact that its relation to experience was entirely accidental. The confusion with experience, or with the experiencer, was certainly an error, but otherwise there was nothing scandalous about this contingency. It was generally much celebrated.