Nexus Plexus

A s y o u l o o k a t t h e s e l e t t e r s a p p e a r i n g o n e a t a t i m e a c r o s s y o u r s c r e e n o f c o n s c i o u s n e s s a n d s i m u l t a n e o u s l y h e a r i n g t h e q u e s t i o n - W h a t i s t h e o n l y t h i n g o f w h i c h y o u c a n b e c o n s c i o u s ? - o f w h a t a r e y o u n o w c o n s c i o u s ?

The only thing you can be conscious of is consciousness being conscious, short of that, it's all just shadows on the wall of the endarkened cave wherein you are chained to the four walls by all four of your limbs.

The ordinary consciousness in your brain, the state you are in right now... and right now... and right now... is the only thing of which you are or can be conscious, and it is the thing that entirely constitutes what you call you.

You are not conscious of the CRT screen; you are not conscious of well-formed, well-ordered, serially-running black dots on that screen; you are not conscious of sensations resulting from the visual impressions falling upon the nerve endings deep inside your endarkened brain cave wherein you are chained to the...; you are only conscious, or you are not, of consciousness - either your are, or you are not.

When you look up there, in there, to see what consciousness is doing inside your brain cave, you will eventually discover that what it's doing, almost FULL TIME, for your entire life, is not knowing what to do, and then, doing everything it can to keep from having to face it - it will talk to people to find out what they think, it will read books to find out what the author thinks, it will even watch tv to find out what tv characters think, etc.

When you are reading, or listening to other people talking, your consciousness will listen to their talking/reading, and it will temporarily >>replace your consciousness<< - their talking replaces your consciousness - because consciousness does not want to be by itself, which is, if you want a particularly close-to-the-bone definition: being awake.

That is, you look up at consciousness and you see that it is doing anything but simply being conscious.