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I imagine there are quite a few different understandings of what is meant by "flow", so please don't take what I say as authoritative. According to Buddhist philosophy, which contradicts Hindu philosophy on this point, consciousness cannot exist without an object, or without some content. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. The consciousness that arises from contact ends as soon as the contact is broken, and it must be refreshed moment-to-moment (by sustained contact). That constant refreshing is the flow, much like a candle flame must be constantly fed by the wick and wax. You might visualize touching something that's warm. Heat from the warm object flows into your finger, conditioning the consciousness of it. At every moment of contact, there is an ongoing influx of heat, creating the sense of continuity.

A common error is to reify that experience into an entity, which is easy to do because of the way we use nouns for both concrete and abstract. Consciousness can't be a singular, fundamental entity because it consists of so many parts. Consciousness is a process, not a thing in itself. Therefore, when we say "consciousness of the heat", we're treating it as if it were a concrete existent, rather than an abstraction. For that matter, abstractions, too, are not fundamental existents, as they are conditioned by so many other elements.