Consciousness as the ground by which mind can come into effect as reflection, doubling, mirroring, inversion, projection, splitting, negation, etc. As a subject you are at the apex of a sprawling web of othering relations, but if all that was peeled away only original awareness would remain. What is the taste of coffee without the name and concept of coffee, without a whole personal and social history attached to it? Just as you drink, without history, this warm smoky brownness streaked with soft black lightnings that momentarily washes over the front of your presence and disappears. In a reflex you summon words and the free-floating thing melds into words and reflections and a thousand fading references.