When we bring a cup to our lips, we are making a lot of assumptions about the world. That our muscles can interact with reality in a predictable way. That what we see with our eyes is sufficiently explained by the words "I can see it".

But sight is not just pictures, or even a 3d reality that we 'see'. Sight is an 'awareness' in 'here' of a 3d reality 'out there'. 'we' are the 'observer' and 'it' is the 'observed'.

And we can predict a lot of what happens 'out there'. We can 'do something' that makes our hands move, and then 'see' the results of our efforts in the outside world, as sensory events flow into our mind.

But in order to 'see' an apple, we need to first believe in the idea of an apple. The idea of form, and later, the idea of behavior (time). And we need a privilaged 'platform' in order to be a 'witness' to this effect.

I suspect that we can only 'see', or be 'aware' of a visual scene, by being simultaneously capable of physically interacting with it. Within our mind at least. By using prior memories from our muscles and senses. We do not need to actually interact with it, but the pathways must be there such that we could.

And it is those pathways that form the foundation of our awareness.

Every mental 'scene' we are conscious of, will have extending sets of muscle and sensory patterns of information capable of predicting interactions with it. Even if the inner 'scene' is a scale model metaphor of some larger scene beyond our reach.

Awareness is the linking of muscle scripts to our sensory patterns and then on into the wider environment of all known 3d space.

The difference between the conscious and the unconscious mind is the alignment of muscle scripts to the sensory 'scene' to create time.

Time cannot exist within a conscious mind without reference to behavior. And behavior can always be encoded as information scripts driving muscles. Whether the muscles are real, like in our arm, or a metaphor like a train or the hands of a clock.

The patterns of information that enter the brain from our senses, and the patterns that feed our muscles, are all 2 dimensional in nature. Simple 2d patterns of information represented by pulses of voltage through time.

During childhood, the 2d patterns feeding our muscles, and those from our senses become aligned, through cause and effect, to a matrix of nodes representing an inner 3d space. This inner 'space' mirrors the physical space directly around us. And through the extension of 'metaphor', to 3d space beyond our physical reach. It is a universal or 'common' 3d space.

And whereas reality can accept only one definition of space at any one time, information can accept an infinite number of definitions. Through the selective resonancing of patterns through those common junctions or nodes representing our inner 3d space. If you forget, for a moment, how our legs move us between places, we inevitably will end up interacting with the few square feet within our immediate reach. We draw most of our life scenes into this universal space for which we have an accurate inner sensorimotor matrix of cause and effect to draw upon.

Physical reality provides the training medium between the 'cause' of the muscles and the 'effects' in our senses. And through the consistency of cause and effect in reality, this inner matrix of nodes, representing a virtual copy of that universal 3d space surrounding the body, is formed within the mind from associations between our muscles and our sensory feedbacks.

Only those patterns which are coherent with the 3d nature of external reality, aligned to those cause and effect consistencies, become foundational components of this matrix. Because reality is both repetitive and consistent.

It is the reason we can put our finger tip precisely to any location around us. Our inner model and the outer model are aligned through a matrix of learned muscle scripts. And the matrix knows how to move points of our body between points within this space, because it is the 2d muscle patterns that are the effective 'glue' that 'joins' the 3d matrix nodes to each other.

Whereas physical matter can only be in one place at a time, information can share the same node within our inner matrix, thus representing a kind of 'universal' or 'quasi 4th dimensional' physical space.

So if a node in the matrix can represent a mental point in space time, there can be a billion branches from that node representing specific instances of that universal space time. Any set of which could be considered 'resonant', and thus 'conscious'. We believe we 'know' what is in front of our eyes, because we have identified connections within this universal space to 'known' objects and behaviors. At one moment, a pen occupies a specific point in the matrix. A moment later, it can be a cup, or a computer mouse.

Once we believe in the 'truth' of physical form, then those sensory instances aligned to that truth create a subsequent perception of space and time. Which are generally bound together through beliefs and stories about 'forms'. All of which can be tagged and aligned through language markers.

The different sensory experiences of form and behavior in the outside world, begin to create/populate those billions of branches, as specific 'instances' surrounding the universal 3d matrix of space - as defined by those original muscle patterns encoding space time, (learned as a child).

Now although these last few paragraphs may seem a bit complex at first glance, they will be explained in far greater detail throughout my work.

I then talk about how this mechanism approximates toward a 4th dimensional space. One that can collapse into consciousness an 'observed' three dimensional reality.

Now whether a real 4th spatial dimension exists in reality, is not the point, although some physicists do suspect it does. Since the mechanism I describe above is based on information, and could, in my opinion, represent a kind of virtual approximation to a 4d space. Since the common 3d virtual space can be 'connected', through common nodes, to an almost infinite capacity for potential sensory instances. The selective resonancing of these 'instances' representing our capacity to believe in form and behavior and by extension, a simulated space and time. And by extension again, stories and beliefs.

I.e. the collapse into conscious resonance of 3d scenes that can 'travel' through space and time according to the selections of those instances. The potential pathways constrained by what we call our 'beliefs'.

The reason we can be consciously 'aware' of a scene brought into resonance. Is not just because we can estimate the muscle and sensory pathways leading to and from that 3d scene (Which in itself implies a dilation of time, since muscle action = time). But because the scene has the capacity to extend itself through space and time through those 'instances' connected together by our 'beliefs' about forms. (Beliefs which were rigorously trained by reality)

The scene is known through what it is not yet, but could be. And what is might have been, but now is. These memory pathways being the subconscious or the observer side of awareness.

Awareness is knowing the 3d scene against everything that it could credibly (through experience) become. Or from which it could credibly have come from. So it is this extension through virtual space and time that is the cradle for awareness. What we 'do inside' when we say we can 'see'.

Consider that a polaroid camera can take an image, a 2d instance, of a 3d room. And there will be an infinite number of such possible pictures. Of 2d image instances from the single 3d room reality.

Now imagine, for the moment, a 3d polaroid camera. One that can take 3d 'pictures' of the room. It too can take an infinite number of 3d instances of that room. But if it's only a 3d room, all of the 3d camera instances will be the same (no matter where the camera in 'pointed').

But if it's a 4th dimensional room (or space), then each 3d 'instance' can be a different room (or a different time - since time is our way of deconstructing 4th dimensional space). Yet all the while remain the same 4th dimensional 'object' or 'space'.

And yet, there is still no concept of an observer perspective anywhere defined. Even for our normal 2d polaroid scenario. Since it is only in our own mind, that we convert the 2d pattern of pixels of the picture into the perception of a unique perspective in 3d space.

The 'observer perspective' is not an easy concept to explain. It is the property of an information system which creates a 3rd dimensional instance from a 4th dimensional space. Or more commonly, a series of 3 dimensional instances, connected together through the 'binding belief' in 'forms', yielding the potential for 'behaviors' and thus the belief in time.

Time being represented by behavior, which is a tiny subset, or path, through a 4th dimensional 'object'. Behavior being neither an instance (a static 3d photograph or 'form'). Or being all possible instances - i.e. the entire 4th dimensional 'object'. But lying somewhere between the two.

Remember, we are talking here about the organization of information patterns into a 4th dimensional alignment, and not about our real physical world, parts of which presumably cannot simultaneously occupy the same space and time.

So basically, when we 'see' something - triggered from patterns in reality (such as vision). Or triggered from our own thoughts or 'imagination' (prior pattern instances). The mind creates an observer perspective by aligning those triggering sensory patterns to the universal matrix of muscle scripts. (Those linking the outer world to the inner world). And that matrix represents the unifying junction between all our muscle and sensory pattern instances associated with our beliefs and stories about 'forms'. Thus 'lighting up' pathways of potential 'animations' within the subconscious memory.

Those ''illuminated' pathways are the observer side of consciousness. And those sensory patterns currently resonant and aligned to the matrix, are the conscious side of awareness - the moment of now. The strength of those pathways seems to be related to our inner 'values', which themselves are related to our 'emotions'.

Because of these pathways into the subconscious, we always feel able to 'flow' content through into our conscious awareness. Like when a magnifying glass passes over a scene. The link between the current magnified view and the rest of the scene is set by the physical arrangement of the atoms in reality.

In our mind, the magnifying glass is the matrix of 'coomon' space and does not move. The 'magnified' view of our current awareness, is linked to the rest of the 'story' or 'belief' about reality, through connection pathways from those nodes into the subconscious. Using the anchor of our inner matrix of 'universal' space - grounded by our muscle script foundations.

It is not the atoms, as such, that are represented by information within the mind. It is the surfaces that the atoms make up. And the surfaces are represented by touch and muscle scripts.

An atom, being a kind of universal component, can make up any physical form. Similarly a universal muscle component can navigate the surface of any physical form, and have multiple sensory 'instances' then attached to those surfaces.

Time does not exist in our 'moment of now' consciousness, except through connections made, via the matrix, into our subconscious. But we must first identify with the belief in form. Which leads to beliefs in behavior, which in turn leads to belief in stories or narrative.

And finally, we have our genetic, or learned preferences encoded within our 'values'. Which are themselves associated with our 'feelings' which greatly affect the selection and significance of the beliefs held in our subconscious. They seem to motivate most of our actions.

To me, feeling, or emotion, is the greatest mystery of consciousness. My current suspicion is that it's an epiphenomenon of information structured around the 4th dimension. And so by definition, I cannot use references within the 3rd dimension, or metaphors thereof, to pin it down any further. The mystery of emotion is probably related to the phenomenon of information.