Maybe Rene just didn't go far enough. What is thought? Consciousness goes past to future, but thoughts go future to past.

Given the present goes past to future, it would seeming thinking is an effect of being.

Thinking is all about extracting signals from the noise, but what is noise? The great minds have decided reality is order and chaos, but the basis of the signals appear to be noise. Like thoughts are effects of consciousness. All that bubbling going under the surface, that occasionally coalesces into some insight.

Maybe we really haven't thought it out much.