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Every created thing that exists experiences conation to sustain its existence. This conation for self-continuation is always accompanied by a capacity to perceive that it is all-devouring time which engenders the diminishment of one’s existence in favor of the generation of another being in one’s place. Rudimentary consciousness may be defined as just this: the awareness of the unique conation of one’s existence, together with the perception that time will waste away the entity that one is in order to make way for another one to occupy one’s space. Time, then, is the uniquely subjective force, felt by a given entity, of the displacement of space from the body of one entity to the body of another. The most acute and salient – and thus the most real – modality of consciousness is pain, for pain is the awareness of some degree of fatal harm  to one’s continued existence, or terminal damage to one’s organism. The opposite of pain, of course, is pleasure which is just a consciousness of some degree of benefit in the form of the preservation of one’s selfhood in the body.
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