If consciousness were identical with its function then its being would be that of a process. In that case its relation to the being of the process itself would be at best mediated, at best it would relate itself to the process of being instead of the being of being. More simply it arises on a substrate which escapes whatever it is that it can know directly. Mediately it can learn much about that which gives it, but only in so far as it interacts with it. The intuition of consciousness is that it is directly related to being, but that this relation is obscured. It is there and unforgettable but cannot be reached of put to work. If it has a destiny it is to expose that being, to be the exposure of that being.