Consciousness and time exist because there is matter.

Matter exists because there is light.

Light exists because there is energy.

Energy exists because there is..

The answer to this seems to have lots of different potential answers depending on how you look at the question. Yet I can't find one that would satisfy the logical follow-up of the previous statements.

I would have to rephrase it as "Energy is what we use as a means to describe..", by which I could say "something that can transform into work" for example.

The reason I couldn't follow-up in the same manner is because energy does not really exist, in the same way a consciousness does not really exist, yet both do come in many forms and degrees. (I'm not implying consciousness is any less real than matter, they are inextricably linked).

Makes me wonder if there's some other overlapping features between the two. Maybe, as the amount of energy that is conserved in the universe always stays the same, so does the amount of consciousness. In the physical sense, when we transform our food into feces, an entropic event as far as we're concerned, to the fly it is a source of energy. So too in the non-physical sense, may the death of a consciousness be the fuel for something or someone else.

If anyone else pondered on this, I would love to hear your thoughts.

#asknostr