Consciousness left to itself makes worlds filled with scenes and situations which succeed and proceed over each other according to a proto-causality with intrinsic rules which seem perfectly transparent but which are impossible to codify. What is odd about waking consciousness is the apparent stability of things. It is not that it is a peculiar kind of dream which by a sequence of accidents reveals nothing behind itself but itself, but that it is consciousness organised according to rules designed to foster constancy and continuity, that links together large chains of experiences in almost coherent wholes. So, in looking towards the thing or the objective pole in experience we are encountering the constraints of a type of consciousness based on the assumption of the causality of something out there, rather than actual evidence of such causality. Causality is a structuring notion which holds in place an internal theory of mind, of our own mind as much as the minds of others, which provides them with matter in both senses. Again, causality is a notion that remains rooted in the experience of doership, of will, desire, intention and purposive action, and as such is inseparable from a general kinaesthetic figuration, it is bodily in a way that reaches deep into phylogenetic memory. Out of this, in the over-refined field of meaning generated by reflective consciousness there emerges the idea of freedom and hence of the responsible self, transcendental and noumenal when its self-understanding is permitted to fully develop.