“If an environmental trace is in close connection with the Ego system it will not only be in communication with the particular time structure of that system with which it communicated at the time of its formation; but because of the coherence of the whole temporal Ego system it will be in communication with later strata also.”

—  Kurt Koffka

Source: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 522

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