To break through the haze requires a trick,
having a mind, abnormally slick.
One feature of consciousness’ singularity is its ability for extended focus. Allowing things to stick to your thoughts produces a gradual, but certain mischief: the fragmentation of consciousness from repetitive, faux-passion, self-inflicted blows; and while a fractured consciousness is man’s norm, it is this condition that much troubles a few, anomalously wired.
One feature of consciousness’ singularity is its ability for extended focus. Man’s non-conscious instincts are programmed to focus on a matter only for as long as it is significant to survival. A gazelle’s attention on a lion lurking in the grass, is only for the time the lion is there. If the lion leaves, the gazelle’s instincts instantly forget the whole affair, but consciousness does not so automatically forget.
The conscious mind of a man in the wilds, who saw a stalking lion nearby, once safe, would not immediately forget what had occurred, but would remember it vividly. It would review the circumstances of the previously experienced, threatening situation sufficiently to form plans of future action, which would diminish the possibility of it reoccurring.
This is what consciousness and thought are for, and if instinct had consciousness, in the above example, once it had formulated plans to deal with the lion problem in the future, instinct would have forgotten lions totally until the next time one appeared. But this is not how consciousness works in consciousness.
J.