When cognition becomes aware of itself within perception, it discovers how understanding emerges through its own activity rather than through passive reception of external data. This awareness reveals the essential unity of thinking and being.
Between raw sensation and formed understanding exists a dynamic threshold where experience illuminates itself through its own activity. This illumination occurs not as external addition but as inherent clarification of what already exists implicitly within the field of awareness.
Prior to the division of subject and object stands immediate experience in its undifferentiated wholeness. This primordial encounter contains within itself
At the threshold where immediate experience transforms into understanding, the artificial separation between perception and thinking dissolves.