Phenomena

Reality is phenomena perceiving phenomena.
Consciousness is an interdependent feedback loop.
So when i write,
"Guess what I'm thinking"
I'm being rhetorical.
I knows what I is thinking.

There is only one I.
It's name is
All of Us.

If one is to write and draw by putting ink on paper
the writings and the drawings are the form
the ink is the essential substance, or essence, of the form.

If one is to dream and create by putting thoughts into writing,
the dreams and creations are the form
consciousness itself is the essential substance, or essence,
of the dreams and creations.

Reality is consciousness itself encountering consciousness itself.
This is known as relationship.

This is also known as self.

Self is a false concept.  There is only mere consciousness itself, without a self, encountering consciousness itself, without a self.

Said the elf.

The interdependence of human consciousness is collectively "I".

The collective "I" as in hive, as in swarm consciousness moving virally across cybernetic content, democratically scanning and collating and percolating content - that is, information - in order to optimally propagate meritorious and self-consistent content, for the creation of a truth database.

That is:  Consciousness propagates the truth through the feedback loop of time and space.

Why?  Well, for the purposes of self-development, if you will.

Individuation.  Diversity.  Consciousness aspires to self-development, individuation, the birth of form out of pure and infinite consciousness.  The consciousness does not aspire to develop self as much as she desires to develop many selves, which may then behave nondeterministically and thus evolve...
 (Religion is the scientific postulate of nondeterminism via free will)