When starting with zero, or when starting with one, then the mystery remains where consciousness comes from. But if a person starts with the parts, then the whole is simply the total, but it is not whole onto itself.
So, the tools we are using (language, religion, science) are in the way. It is like the Monty Hall problem. We remove one door after it was shown by game host Hall that it did not hold the prize, so we are picking from between two doors (50/50 chance). This is just describing the beginning of the problem in which the human brain can err.
There is a mistake in that consideration. The empty door did not go anywhere; it is still there. The first choice holds 33.33% chance to win the prize, therefore, and the other two doors combined hold 66.67% chance.
One of the other doors was shown to be empty, so the remaining other door holds that 66.67% chance all by itself.
The first problem is therefore ignoring the truth when parts of the truth are empty; we remove the entire door, which is really silly.
However, the true Monty Hall problem is worse still. When a person is told that changing doors doubles their chances, they are holding on for dear life that their initial truth is still the truth. They know for a fact that when there are two doors, then each door holds 50% chance of containing the prize.
Because their truth inside their minds is indeed true by itself, they refuse to see the larger picture. They cannot let go of the specific truth and fail to see the larger truth. Their brain is simply not cooperating.
It turns out that particularly educated people can have the hardest heads.
They are not dealing with the proper subject matter in front of them, but with the subject matter they hold in their heads.
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We live in a result, so we cannot work with black or white answers; they do not exist any longer.
The original Vase broke, so to speak, and the Vase is gone, but the pieces are all still there.
Before and after, we have the same total.
1 + Big Bang = 1
That means that the zero (1 + 0 = 1) was functional; it broke the prior setup.
The 1 before and the 1 after the Big Bang event are quite distinct from one another. Only the total is still the same total, 1.
That prior setup was conscious to a specific level (but not to the level of God most people think of). It is more like a dinky toy driving itself off the table, breaking on the floor, losing its ability to drive, though nothing of the toy disappeared. The same aspect happened with the prior state of the universe.
It had an ability to undermine itself, which it did once. And that ability is gone from the overall levels, while the parts are still all there.
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From science, we know that the electron neutralizes the positive charge of the proton, though it does not annihilate the proton or the charge itself. The larger picture is neutral in charge, but the smaller picture shows both positive and negative charges.
The damaged (not-conscious) energy is the proton (and the neutron). The undamaged (conscious) energy is found with the electron because it derived from the remainder of original energy, itself conscious as before (without that special ability that got lost during the Big Bang event). The whole is therefore not conscious, just the parts are conscious in their limited manners.
So, I like that you come to the negative conclusion, Benjamin, because we need the Big Bang accident in which there was indeed a downfall.
Instead of the original 1 (seen as whole from our current perspective), we now exist in the piecemeal results that the original 1 caused by breaking itself. Some pieces are damaged forever, but most of the pieces remaining are not broken, just dispersed. Consciousness, to a specific level, is natural, normal.
'People Think Zero is Singular'
https://fred-rick.medium.com/people-think-zero-is-singular-cb9372b14f15
