“Oh, well, as usual, the assumptions are false, which is probably the better lesson of the question than the answer, which you already know. Consciousness does not exist in time, and since consciousness is all, there’s really no alternative to it. There is no such thing as not-consciousness, or other-than-consciousness. That which exists in truth cannot also not exist in truth. Would you ask how the infinite arises from the finite? The true from the false? The real from the unreal? Poof! Question destroyed, mystery solved. Any others?”
