Antahkarana: Nietzsche's Eternal Return

While working out details of Kashmir Shaivism, generally into a Peircian Type/Token form, the representation of a wheel, or circular process, where the elements chita, ahamkara, manas, and buddhi, respectively, which work to function as an apperception or transcendental function, became problematic. Firstly due to the hyperlink of ‘manas’ to a western notion that takes it out of a native context and into western notions ramped with psychologistic mechanisms, such as the Turing Test. Secondly is the suspect notion of a peculiar interpretation of Eternal Return as this wheel like function (Google antahkarana for iconic material). Thirdly, the related idea of Indra and the competitive history between Zarathustrian and Hindi traditions, which evidently became hostile to each other.

What is at stake here is the Peircian notion of (biological) instinct, or more formally “… it must have a second triadic relation in which the Representamen, or rather the relation thereof to its Object, shall be its own (the Third’s) Object, and must be capable of determining a Third to this relation. EP2: 273.

Generally speaking there is a Peircean outline to these elements.