Understanding which takes its rise from subjective consciousness and its objects, from phenomenological consciousness exhausts itself in the functional forms and ends by coming up against the problem of its own subjectivity in the form of a 'hard problem' or of (a type known as) qualia, or the need for panpsychism etc. All of these solutions being somewhat unsatisfactory, bearing an uneasy conscience, since it can find no concrete difference brought about by experience rather than say a 'global workspace' or some such functional addendum. Step back a moment from this and it is the will to power or simply the desire to desire, which provides in outmoded language, the prime mover of all this functional machinery. The problem which insists on being posed at this level has no solution at the same level, and this very lack of a solution it its most important generator of fresh forms. As against this it is proposed that phenomenological consciousness can only arise within global consciousness by a filiation without any ratio. In respect of global consciousness or experience in its widest sense there is a tremendous tension with Being, like the charge that exists between two infinite parallel planes. It is this unworldly stress that, transposed onto the level of consciousness is the force recognised variously as will to power or desire to desire.