Thinking, feeling and willing, each of these happens as if from a self, as if it is for some-'one', and this structure is part of the present-time process of these modes. But a self does not just represent the fulcrum for each type of motion because it only works as such if it comes with an understood unity, that it is the same self in each case and each instance of each case. Of course this understanding is not borne out by any evidence at all, a failing which oddly is taken to enhance the self since it makes of it a quest and a destiny, a protagonist of adventures etc. The other side of this inquiry is that it is easily seen that however the self appears in any occasion it is a thought form dependent on other conditioning thought forms. This is the basis of every sort of 'deconstruction', but useful and useless or worse. The 'inverse limit' of all such steps back is what is called the background consciousness.