If you say that everything is consciousness what you mean is that all of the relationships between appearances, whether they are themselves apparent or not, and mostly they are not, have the same kind of being as the appearances themselves. There is an ongoing enterprise of putting together a comprehensive map of reality, and on this assumption it is worth pursuing. There may be dead ends, the need to backtrack, to abandon whole world-views, dismantle and cannibalise their lexicons, and find a new starting point, but in this process there is a continual evolution of natural-philosophy into true philosophy. The encompassing process proceeds by internal criticism and the assimilation of new perspectives and extraneous partial truths originating in local inquiries. If the order of the world is finally comprehensible then the division between mind and world will be revealed as merely formal. This is a version of the notion that since man is created in God's image then it is possible for the human mind to fathom the secrets of creation - like those physicists who describe their enterprise as penetrating the mind of God. That few believe in such an idea has not lessened the fury of interpretation, in fact release from the goal or the responsibility of working towards a unitary interpretation has given new fire and a certain imperiousness to local inquiries. One's politics may be global while one's metaphysics, which means here interpretation of interpretation, is fiercely nationalistic. The understanding that everything is consciousness can still survive in this climate but it must be modified by the assertion that consciousness is more than the appearance of consciousness, and since appearance and consciousness are at the outset effectively equivalent terms this entails that consciousness is ultimately not consciousness, what we understand as consciousness, as the functioning of mind, is only a thin refraction of what consciousness truly is. Now tell me, do you find any evidence of this?