The core structure of experience is: willing and then pang, reaction, automation, which propels willing, followed by pang, reaction, automation.

In Indian categories: vedanā, saṃskāra, bhava.

This sequence is one cycle of subjective or subject-propelling experience.

There is the basis, which is negentropic suspension of energy-sustained or high-tension receptive field ready for perturbation, and then the other one of active, agentive consciousness, which is like second-order consciousness. (There is the one that flashes out with the content of the sensation, momentary sense consciousness. But then there is something else, also resting on stimulations of energy input, resting on a bed of high energy. There are though events that are self-produced perturbations of an ongoingly nourished and propped-up e-field, of a certain irregular but homeostatic equilibrium state. This state is stable, but keyed-up, and any fluctuation produces a burst of sensation-like presence. For example, in the self-satisfying activity of imagination. Will meets an amenable super-clay that embodies its willed perceptions.

Surplus and negentropy: this is what consciousness is. That is, it is this aspect that is the proximal emergent that is consciousness. Sure, panpsychism is trivially true for any physicalism. But the kind of sustained, focusable consciousness of ours—an attending and projecting meaning and value, stably, and lifting as image generated internally under intentional act, and the power of comparing this with other imaginings, including ideas of relation, into a system of cosmology, the common sense in-the-world always running in the background of a sane awake person—requires the unity of a floating e-field whose perturbations are “events for a unified subject.” That is, all events are “mine.” This is possible only with a field-plus-local-perturbations device. The physical (objective) being of this this in the brain e-field. This is not consciousness, but it is that floating unity of the epistemic subject—the topic of Kant.

Kant’s theory and this surplus-negentropic e-field perturbation theory go hand-in-hand.