Winquist noted that in René Descartes' third Meditation, Descartes wrote that God transcended "subjective dominance." The very thought of God's attributes created doubt about the innate ability of human nature to comprehend the existence of God. It is enough to understand there is an infinite that can be judged, and that all these attributes clearly perceived and known imply perfection... Thinking formulaically about God defies selfhood. Traces of the divine, or even another, change patterns of thought that remain a part of the questioning individual. Thinking transcends itself and disrupts its own "recording surface". Perceptual limitations still exist, which Winquist called a "knot", but Winquist argued phenomenology was humiliated by consciousness, which peaked when encircled by meaningful nuances that transcended the control of consciousness itself.