The idea that consciousness is primarily initiated by symmetries and relationships underlying experience and that the phenomenal world is a secondary phenomenon or fabulation of this, is akin both to computational models and to Platonism - the two being closer in spirit than one might think - provides some insight into phenomena that are already largely relational, but does little for those that lean more on pure qualia, like colour and smell. The so-called secondary standing out as more primary than the primary ones.