Thank you for your answer, Antonio, and the explanation of representation being a key part of the concept.

Is representation not founded by attention, formed by the thoughts generated and the lack of representation based on a lack of attention control, where thought follow a near random path, distortingnthe very reality due to a distorted representation of that same reality?

The representation can only be formed by the thought that arises due to attention, if the attention control is mainly directed by external referencing, like in most of us after our 3-5th year, it is causing a thought process in line with that external reference and therefore generates a directed representation, the common ground of advertising.

To be aware of the dependency of external referencing and the turn back, to internal referencing, being intuition and gut-feeling, the directing of advertising into emotions and feelings instead of logic, makes it difficult, close to impossible to withstand the impact of advertisement, especially on the area where representation of our false self is concerned. Advertisment is only successful in people who function on external referencing.

By taking the attention control back, the internal referencing mode will override the external dependency again because one gets in control of the thought process again and is not lead by it: thinking is not happening to them, they are in control of thought again.

In my view the transition of the encouragement phase, where parents and the direct surrounding are fully encouraging to smile, to walk, talk and progress, into the correction phase, where the child only gets to be corrected on what is incorrect according to the views of the parent and the surroundings, causes a stress situation and a high potential inner conflict in the child between what was encouraged and what now becomes a vault of insecurity, it must have an inpact on the attention control and the way thought becomes far more essential than it should be: the reality option generator becomes the actual truth in a child which it can never generate. The external reference is then forced to prevail in the choice between to rebel or to adapt.

This tension arena is the ideal platform for psychological deformation of the reality in front of the child and a feeding ground for imaginatiin and illusion to escape in.

In my personal and direct experience, I have seen a child flourish with hardly any residue of tension because it has been raised by perants who were aware of their own internal tension arena, aware that it could easily be transferred to the child, which I call the Emotional Plague, cascading through the centuries but never seen as a contagious disease.

In this internal tension field within the parent is not acknowledged, not realised and seen and the residue not kept within themselves, thisvtension is bound to be transferred, creating more confusion in the already confused child.

This internal confusion, founded by preferring external referencing and authority over the internal, is also a ripe area for personality disorders and psychological residue which can be prevented continuing the encouragement phase and not start the correction phase but a guiding phase, where parents, aware of their own psychological state, operate as guides, not authorities.

The attention control is undermind by the internal confusion who one really is, which is kick-started by the correction phase. Not easy for parents and teachers who are not aware of their own inner confusion let along dealing with it to realise their own inner self and reverse the transition from self to pretend-self, character and role-play to cope with the social pressures of the externally accepted authority, played by their own parents and educators.

Hence my view that thought is directed by attention control which in turn, based upon the generated thoughts, build the representation of the world

Note: the term Emotional Plague was launched by Wilhelm Reich M.D. in his book "The Murder of Christ: The Emotional Plague of Mankind", January 1953, dealing with the same issue of forced social intervention of our development of self as a child, the abuse of external authority of one person over the other where there is guidance required..

Leaving emotional scars to deal with in a later stage of life to fully reverse this and going home in ourselves, to stay this time, the grounds and aims of self-enquiry (Ramana 1879–1950). Once the seer in ourselves, is seen, all false veils (read persona's) on top of our original and uncorrupted self, to cope with the abuse of external authority, are disposed of in ourselves.

In the arrival in this stage of life, all internal tension and suffering ends as soon as thought is no longer out of control, back into our control, the attention control awakened and fully in charge again of representing the reality in front of us, as it is: raw and unbiased.

Quote: "a learning situation, is not exclusively reduced to attention, but is essentially based on the lack of representation. This is what guides thought in its prefiguration, that is, it anticipates the thought-action relationship"

In my view, this is the feedback loop thought is caught in as soon as the initial thought is launched and the person directs, willfully or not, to this thought, kickstarting the first story lines of a representation, losingnitself in imagination, the realm of thought. Antonio Damassio has proven the existance of the feedback loop in his field of neuroscience, creating the very body emotions and its result: feelings. All this reinforces the misrepresentation of the reality in front of us.

The accumulation of thought is the foundation of representation in the shape of a story, enforcing itself with more-of-the-same thoughts, due to the feedback loop of initiated emotions and its follow up: feelings of what happens thus enforcing the representation and the acceptance of the story as truth due to the external influences of the abuse of authority when we grow up and our reliance on thought being the prevalence over our intuition because the world out there tells us so.

The development of a mind as the accumulation of thought and the accepted wiser guide in us (find this mind in us please, try to catch it in you to show that it exists) tightens the virtual prison of our authentic self even more.

This I thought is formed of which the entire misrepresentation of ourself is reinforced from. The "I am" and what ever is followed after that, is what we believe we are, based on the tension and confusion we have to deal with as a child.

Some will challenge this glass house prison, most of us stay in this projected world in fear of raising this battlefield within us again where emotions and feelings are unleashed, being the exact and very guardians of the prison.

To comprehend this fortress based on thoughts, these options generated to the reality we directly perceive, is the way back, the way we came.

This comprehention can only be achieved through finding the seer within ourselves, thus reversing the build up of persona's which you can be aware of in you and thus is not you. The seen is not who you are, the seer is.

The thought-action relationship can be seen and disposed of by realising that thoughts are only options to the reality in front of us.

The thought process can never truly represent reality as thought operates in the realm of imagination and its stretched boundaries. It is simply, basically impossible to generate reality due to that limitation being bound by imagination and illusions.

Reality does not require imagination to exist or to be formed: the two exclude each other fundamentally.

We are actually not looking for a representation of reality when we look for reality itself. Our believe that thought can create it for us, is the culprit and keeps us in the space of projection where reality and certainly truth cannot be found.

As soon as one realises that thoughts are options, the I-thought will disappear, the storyline collapses and makes way for the real I to appear, the one that does not require a story to represent it by. I (ego) needs to go for I (self) to be possible.

Looking for a representation is where it starts to be foggy and thought happily provides the need for that.