prapa~nca,  or   sa.mj~naa   in   Yogaacaara's--that
　　   experience  becomes  a  constructive  process.   The
　　   sensations   are  interpreted   in  light   of  past
　　   experience,  including   cultural   and   linguistic
　　   constructs and individual interests and preferences.

　　　　  James identifies the first agent of construction
　　   as  attention,  because   attention   selects  which
　　   aspects  of a field  of awareness  will receive  its
　　   focus:

　　   Consciousness  is always interested more in one part
　　   of its  object  than  in another, and  welcomes  and
　　   rejects, or  chooses, all  the  while  it thinks....
　　   Accentuation  and  Emphasis  are  present  in  every
　　   perception we have.(25)

　　   For   James,  the   result   of  attention   is  the
　　   reification  of certain aspects of the reality  that
　　   is transmitted by the sensations:

　　   Out  of  what  is  in itself  an  indistinguishable,
　　   swarming   continuum,  devoid   of  distinction   or
　　   emphasis....　　 Attention...   picks   out   certain
　　   sensations  as worthy of notice, choosing those that
　　   are signs to us of things  which happen  practically
　　   or  aesthetically   to  interest  us,  to  which  we
　　   therefore  give substantive  names  and to which  we
　　   give the status of independence and dignity.(26)

　　   James  notes  that names  and seemingly  independent
　　   things are the products of the reification  process.
　　   The  independent  status  of  objects  is purely  an
　　   attributed  status  according  to James  because, as
　　   discussed  above in section I, he claims subject and
　　   object   to  be  inextricably   interfused   in  the
　　   prereflective  phase  of experience.  James  further
　　   notes  that  the world  we construct  is stable  and
　　   uniform

　　　　　　　　　　　　  P.229

　　   while  experience  and  phenomena  are  dynamic  and
　　   ever-changing.(27)  Similarly,  for  Yogaacaara  and
　　   indeed  all Buddhism, the basic  products  that  the
　　   hypostatization  of the field of awareness  produces
　　   are  phenomena  whose  seeming  independence  belies
　　   their   underlying   interconnectedness   and  whose
　　   seeming  staticity  betrays  the  momentariness   of
　　   existents and the stream of consciousness.