Whether you start in seeking the origin of your own consciousness from a physicalist world or from a mental one in terms of a mind at large or universal consciousness there is a problem of individuation, since the only for of consciousness known to you and generally agreed upon is the particular individual which you are, in each instance, and essentially particular as well. All of the most characteristic psychological dramas that go with being-a-consciousness are also directly derived from this indelibly isolated particularity. All of this hinges on a fundamental misrecognition of the nature of consciousness, and indeed its confusion with the cogito as pure intuitive self-revelation. It is perhaps sufficient to note that whatever that illumination is nowhere does it pretend to reveal the nature of consciousness. It is only the flashing of a luminous and inscrutable idea before consciousness.