For experience to be parsed as events in time and space there must be an element of the experiencing which is not in space or time. This is something like the potential for experiencing - the potential for experiencing plus experiencing is what is called consciousness. All this might all still be a special kind of event in 'real' space and time, but to be so would involve some fancy topology. Consciousness spontaneously gives rise to just such topologies, and that is the source of much of our psychological and even spiritual riches. Whether what is in play is something very simple but beyond space and time, or something very complex entirely within space and time is an irresolvable question, a fundamental and founding uncertainty.