“This leads us to another emergent characteristic of consciousness that arose in correspondence with the idea of transcendence: metacognition. This is also called second-order thinking. It is the capacity to think about thinking, implying a mind that can take the contents of its own consciousness as objects of thought. What was subjective is made objective. What was felt as self is placed “out in front” of self.“
This is very well said. A further implication of this psychological configuration is that the contents of our consciousness are never present tense, but always past thought.
“This leads us to another emergent characteristic of consciousness that arose in correspondence with the idea of transcendence: metacognition. This is also called second-order thinking. It is the capacity to think about thinking, implying a mind that can take the contents of its own consciousness as objects of thought. What was subjective is made objective. What was felt as self is placed “out in front” of self.“
This is very well said. A further implication of this psychological configuration is that the contents of our consciousness are never present tense, but always past thought.
Appreciate your incorporation of the temporal dimension here.