Note on TPC and TPP

Yoga citta vritti nirodhah

. How can we speak of the thought of being, the thought of existence and forget that before all else thought itself is, thought is there, for us, in us, in its convoluted unceasing stream and primordial being. But to be aware of, conscious of, thought as thought, that thought is itself the great a priori screen and window wherein plays out the play of the world, this is already a path to TPC. How does this transcendental awareness of the totality of the thought-process work ? How can thought then think itself and be beyond itself ? How does TPC work ? How can being be a thought and yet thought be a being? How is thought related to language ? How is thought related to the impression or structure of 'self'? How is thought tinctured by sense-images and other psychological material ? How does temporality work in the diverse modes of thought, memory, recollection, anticipation, habit ? We should be very careful about dissections of thought: for instance Brentano's intentionality, Husserl's noesis vs. noema, the concept of 'content', etc. And it is astounding that those who disparage conceptual realism accept at the same time completely arbitrary, dogmatic, unproven and implausible functionalist theories. Neuroreductionism, eliminationism, functionalism and neothomist theories of embodied consciousness should be considered dogmatism and philosophical naivety par excellence. What is the transcendental meaning of the construction or bringing to light of formal systems which are supposed to act as masks, or exterior projections, doubles, of thought ? How does translation and multilingual consciousness work, what do we mean when we say that we think in a given language ? Sextus, Hume and Kant can be read as an absolute untangling and allaying of thought by thought itself transcendentally aware of itself. The true self, pure consciousness (the Vedantic Shaksi), is revealed to itself and at the same time the deep producer and controller of thought is unveiled.

Mathematical projections or representations of consciousness. They can have a field-like spatial-like aspect $\phi: S \rightarrow U$ ($S$ expressing certain concomitant psychological material) and a non-local aspect akin to distributions $\Phi(S,U) \rightarrow V$. Distributions can be interpreted in a way similar to the collapse of the wave-function in quantum theory. In quantum theory we derive a probability relative to each eigenvector, for distributions we a have a real or complex value for each test function. Because of freedom all temporal transition $\phi_t$ must be described probabilistically.  There is no reason to suppose that a thought at a given moment has a single 'content' (noema). The extraction of the content can be likened to evaluation at a test function or quantum measurement. The evolution of thought generalizes computations and proofs (arguments). Denotational semantics and content: the (teleological) question what is the program computing ?