Rod,

When you make references to consciousness, such as "I cannot escape consciousness", there are several ways in which the notion "consciousness" can be understood. For example:

1) as what the brain produces, in a world that is fundamentally given in terms of matter and energy in space and time;

2) as what is phenomenologically given, prior to physical matter and energy;

3) as something that goes beyond even the subject-object split, that is still in place in a typical phenomenological analysis.

Which of these, or possibly another one, did you mean in your last contribution?

Piet