But in its intelligible character (even though we can have nothing more than merely the general concept of it), this subject would nevertheless have to be declared free of all influences of sensibility and determination by appearances; and since, in it, insofar as it is a noumenon, nothing happens, thus no alteration requiring a dynamical time determination is demanded, and hence no connection with appearances as A causes is encountered in its actions, this active being would to this extent be independent and free of all the natural necessity present solely in the world of sense.