Being is one but internally differentiated and dynamic, not uniform or static.
It appears to itself and becomes conscious of itself through many psychophysical organisms.
However, each such organism senses or perceives only its immediate environment.
The single continuous reality generates the appearances of discrete objects and empty spaces.
Being is the universal subject of consciousness.
Psychophysical organisms are individual subjects.
Biological processes both generate and impede consciousness.
Naturally selected organismic sensitivity to environmental alterations quantitatively increased until it was qualitatively transformed into conscious sensation.
Thus, consciousness originated as a means to survival, not as an end in itself.
The conscious motivation of self-preservation generates the illusion of a separate self.
Illusory separation prevents realization of individual identity with the universal self.
Thus, being is conscious but not fully realized.
