"...the external form of consciousness manifests in acts, which takes on the fundamental property of consciousness–its intentionality. The essence of consciousness is being with the world, and this behavior is permanent and unavoidable. Accordingly, consciousness is in essence a 'way towards' something apart from itself, outside itself, which surrounds it and which it apprehends by means of is ideational capacity. Consciousness is thus by definition a method, in the most general sense of the word."