The world making that must precede a world is an achievement of mind but only in service to consciousness, so that we recognise that our everyday subjective consciousness is deeply akin to the transcendental consciousness that installs the rules by which the world gains objective form. This is because even if such rules were dictated by an external reality they could not e 'read' unless the abstract structure of such rules in general were there to receive them. Only consciousness can give the rules to consciousness, but this upstream face of it apparently has no self. Self is rather one f the transcendental conditions of world. But every consciousness corresponds to something like a self, and in this case that is known as being. Not the emptiest of all concepts, but a minute window into a wholly other dimension of experience.