consciousness I would say recognizes itself as contained and within
there is from the individual consciousness no sense of universal consciousness
consciousness is localized
and it is not out there beyond my window next to the palm tree or over
the fence in the paddock
it is not of the surface of the world - of things
it is inside
and not inside every surface entity or event
only some
it is though by definition within the natural world
the natural world has internal centres - consciousness-es
thus the inside of the world is not co-extensive with the outside
some features of the world have insides
have consciousness
so consciousness is contained
I would say self-contained
it postulates itself within itself
and hence recognizes itself
consciousness is thus subjectivity
and a subjectivity that postulates - holds itself within this subjectivity -
as objective - as object-like - that is discrete - defined - contained
the human being as an entity exists inside the world and on its surface
it is two dimensional
metaphysically - two dimensional
and from consciousness the sense of unity - of oneness - of one entity -
among others - and other objects
consciousness defines
this is what differentiation is
metaphysically
we begin from the centre
a centre
in terms of which everything else is categorized
the action of the categorization -
is not indiscriminate
the world is not made by mind
I think it fair enough to put that our categorization of the world -
corresponds - on its own level - to the world
that the surface as it appears to consciousness - is how it is - to consciousness
the point of consciousness is to facilitate definition of the world -
to recognize the world for what it is
we may imagine - another form of consciousness - a higher consciousness
if you like - recognizing - seeing the world differently
this is just to say that beyond our conception the world is unknown
consciousness brings possibility to the world
consciousness brings possibility to the unknown
