[Melchior]

Originally Posted by Anagogy

In my opinion, consciousness is synonymous with energy. Meaning, if there is energy, there is consciousness, though not to necessarily imply that it is consciousness that is self aware, only that there is awareness of movement of some sort occurring.

Ok, so then how does that energy come to the form that we're used to? How does that energy become self aware?

So I think to ask "what created it?" is something of a misnomer, because I think energy has been around forever. Time itself, is yet another manifestation of this energy and so it has no reality above and beyond it as an energy expression.

When we ask "what created it" that kinda presumes a temporal/linear string of events leading to its existence. I just don't see it that way. Rather, I think everything is occurring simultaneously and has been for eternity.

That's fine, I don't care about the grammar and semantics all that much, as long as I know where you're coming from is all right. If you want to say that there is no reality beyond an energy expression, feel free to do so. What I want to know is that if this is indeed the case for reality as you claim, then what are the conditions that are necessary for the thing we label as consciousness (for this discussion, the seemingly complex nature of the consciousness of what has been labeled human beings for ease of communication). How does the energy expression for consciousness look like? What do you think the behavior is like? What are the implications for consciousness as we (or perhaps I) know it based off of this understanding of reality? Is it useful? Etc.

EDIT: How would you have the question read then, and how would you answer it?
Also, how does thinking everything is occurring simultaneously for all eternity help me here?
Oh, and one more thing, in the original post, asked why you thought a certain way, so I could learn. So then I ask another question: What are your reasons for thinking this way? (linking old stuff is fine if you don't want to type it all out ) Thanks for your patience.

EDIT2: Strike that last question, I believe we've discussed this before.