Consciousness as temporalisation, not necessarily the synchronised running off of clock time such as we experience in waking life but any sort of temporalisation, of which there may be many kinds entirely different in structure or basic topology. What is it that it temporalised? Something like Grof's 'condensed experience', that is possible experiences innately grouped by similarity - this is also a topology but without time. This has an elusive intuitive plausibility, like way that Proustian remembrances reveal a reality behind time. Imagine you are a disembodied self, a nodal point of awareness, navigating a high dimensional space of realisations of experience and you encounter another such node. As you move into proximity you each affect the other's field of experience and you suddenly recognise this entity as someone you knew in your embodied past. You don't recognise them by their name or face or bodily appearance since none of these exist here. What happens is that there is an immediate 'Proustian' recall of an interaction (or many interactions) that occurred in that shared past. What are those interactions? They can only be what we might call energy exchanges, the 'rea' of relationship. If this is still intuitively plausible then it is apparent that your energy has retained the fingerprint of that interaction, which means it is path-dependent: it's entire evolutionary history is energetically coded in it. This pure and complete path dependence is the opening into intemporal reality, the time-less similarity topology.