Langer’s choice of the term “feeling” can be seen as an attempt to deal with the same problem, for she stated unequivocally that she intended the term to refer to “what is sometimes called ‘inner life,’ ‘subjective reality,’ [or] ‘consciousness’” (1957b, 112)—to whatever can be said to enter conscious experience, from “the sensibility of very low animals [to] the whole realm of human awareness and thought” (1967, 55).