[Illisezek]

Stuka, I think he is honestly trying to figure out how/why a sense of self prevails in the minds of not only sentient being for whom the DO applies to, but also in any living thing for that matter (not really a sense of self in that case but a basic survival instinct). Even a micro-organism like a bacteria cell has that instinct. I don’t think he is particularly trying to understand if consciousness is really just sensory cognition or anything more than that. I know I cannot speak for the OP but that’s just the impression I got when I read his post.