We could make these cases clearer if we imagine that the
“reading word by word” consisted in pointing to each word
of the sentence in turn with one's finger as opposed to
pointing at the whole sentence at once, say by pointing to the
beginning of the sentence.
And the “acting according to the words” we shall for
the sake of simplicity imagine to consist in acting (stepping or
hopping) after each word of the sentence in turn. ‒ ‒
b) B is guided if he goes through a conscious
process which makes a connection between the pointing to a word and the
act of hopping and stepping.
Such a connection could be imagined in many different ways.
E.g., B has a table in which a dash
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is correlated to the picture of a
man making a step and a dot to a picture of a man hopping.
Then the conscious acts connecting reading the order and carrying
it out might consist in consulting the table, or in consulting a memory
image of it “with one's mind's
eye”.
c) B is guided if he does not just react to
looking at each word of the order, but experiences the peculiar strain of
“trying to remember what the sign means”, &
further, the relaxing of this strain when the meaning, the right action,
comes before his mind.