• Consciousness as something like a faculty, an extra, super-added to the self, why does this seem plausible? Consciousness likened to light, the exposure or disclosure of its contents, as well as a sort of activity. The senses and the world they bring before us, outer senses and inner (bodily) senses, these exist to the degree that they are a process, going on, a knowingness, Bewusstsein from wissen, or wit, mother-wit; to be conscious of, or knowing with something, is also identifying it, immediate classification, and revision of classification, an act of understanding. None of this corresponds to the way in which self is known, in so far as it is known, only that as a kind of knowing it is thought to be necessarily like conscious knowing. There is nothing to be understood, the self is prior to understanding, understand is what it is on behalf of the self, in service to the self. Self is at the other end, the hither end of understanding. The self can be with anything but nothing can be with the self.