The relative stability and independence of the sensory fields encourages the idea that they are complexes built up out of atomic elements, qualia as experiential pixels, but even the purest sensation is always simultaneously the situated awareness of that sensation and hence of its interpretation or frame in some larger context. Every element if there were such would be interchangeably part of both the scene and the framing. It is this back and forth chiasmus that produces the idea of a consciousness as an abstract medium for the ongoing event. Is there anything else to consciousness than this? What knowledge does it have of itself without any other object?