C. S. Peirce: "Experience is the course of life. The world is that which experience inculcates. Quality is the monadic element of the world. [Its self-sufficient firstness not consciously recognised as such.] Anything whatever, however complex and heterogenous, has its quality sui-generis, its possibility of sensation, would our senses only respond to it." The immediate actuality that you are aware of is a surprisal, some impact and resistance against what is passively expected, and therefore a twoness, an excitation of will. But in so far as you can think it is yours, possess it in time, it is a kind of knowledge, modeled on cognition, and accordingly a threeness. The phenomenological forms of consciousness are indefinitely plural but are built up out of recursions and reapplications of the fundamental triad, equivalent to feeling, willing and thinking.