Will and Empowerment

The thesis that has been proposed here--that the immediate object of Consciousness is always Will--might be construed as a perhaps insightful alternative to some traditional theories. But, it can also be taken as a potentially effective discovery. For, it reveals, as a stratum of even cognitive experience, a moment of setting oneself in motion. Thus, it exposes, in even a presumed passive relation, an active ground the discernment of which potentially transforms Experience. That transformation can occur when some physiological motion ensues upon the perception of some external object, i. e. in the context of a response to a stimulus, which, given the presumed passivity of perception, is never more than reactive. But, if every awareness of an outer object is a Consciousness of one's extending oneself towards it, e. g. looking at it, listening to it, etc., and if any subsequent motion is self-activated, then reactive behavior is transformed into active conduct. In other words, that Will is the immediate object of Consciousness is not only potentially insightful, but potentially empowering, as well.