Considerations of consciousness mostly labour under a cognitive or intellectualistic bias, as if awareness is a precipitate of understanding, or even o processing of 'information'. Awareness however is at least as much about loving as knowing, and following this other thread leads to an entirely different resolution into primary functions. 'Eternity is in love with the productions of time' - the universe wanting to love itself, in the knowing of itself, but not as in seeking an object to love, but as a overflowing of a being in love. Even just to dwell on that phrase, 'being in love'.