If you must model pure awareness don't use seeing but inseeing; it's not like (the idea of) perception but like the purely intelligible insight. Is insight conceptual? Does it produce understanding articulated in concepts? It does, but only as coming down or unfolding from a timeless flash. Concepts give rise to and regulate other concepts but what ties them together are immediate relations, inferences with a lively necessity of their own. This cannot derive from further concepts, the conceptual derives from something non-conceptual but of the same nature. This can't just be assumed naturalistically as the way of things without begging the question. Something more like pure intelligence is required. This is how fundamental decisions, far upstream, determine the nature of experience.