The phenomenal world is a creation of the mind but with something else added to give it content and to regularise it so that it is discursively coherent and resumable and endowed with a high threshold of stubborn strangeness. That 'something else' is taken to be not the mind because everything mental is taken to be in a kind of potential contiguity and accessibility so that any externality based on it would dissolve into dream-like self referentiality; any otherness it projected would wink and tip its hand. Essentially, because the conditions that make for the feeling-idea of reality are alien to the self-understood properties of mind. This true otherness then communicates itself to the mind and impresses its nature upon it without actually revealing itself. The relation is imagined as causal, but this cannot in fact be so because causality is a property of mental models. Put simply, the noumenal is not the cause of the phenomenal - however the experiencing world is in relation to the being which it regularises and this relation could only be exposed on the side of being and not of the experiencing world. It is the experiencing which must be newly understood, not the noumenal.