¶ Matter and energy make up the material world, but the mind cannot be the mind without awareness. Awareness is not matter or energy, nor is it the result of functions of either, or both, of the two. Our brains, corporeal and spiritual, are computers of matter and energy, but we are aware of their processing and thus our minds contain thought. This thought contains judgments, which the material world doesn't have on it's own. We see the world from our perspectives, not seeing anything directly, but seeing a mould of the world that has been formed out of clouds of thought.
¶ In a world with none to be aware, and none to judge, there would be nothing. Though there may be a desolate world, but that world would not be perceived, and would be part of nobody’s reality. It would have material existence, but that existence would remain unnoticed. A computer, as a brain, (or as a pile of oblivious dirt) could exist on such a desolate world, without having awareness, and it would continue to have no existence save in material space, outside of the reality of all beings, entities, and so forth. All that I have described in this paragraph exists in your reality more than it would if it really existed in material reality, for if it actually existed, it would not be real. Because you are aware of the concept of it, you know it doesn't exist, though conceptually you can imagine it existing, but you must imagine that you can't imagine it, and in the act of imagining it, you are imagining it. I am trying to describe something unimaginable, but because you are imagining it, what I have described is clearly not what I intended to. It is impossible, because it is outside our realities. That is what I seek to communicate. The concept of the lack of concept. An awareness of the lack of awareness. (What would nothingness feel like?)
¶ Our perception of the material reality comes in the form of symbols. We see colours, shapes, textures. We hear, feel, taste... All these perceptions that we are aware of are occurring exclusively in our minds, for smell does not exist, particles exist which our sensory organs sense and process as a series of events. We may call them numbers, but numbers do not exist materially. The shape we call a number exists, but it is only a number when our thoughts make it real. (Notice: Words mean what they will, which is nothing, but I will word what I mean none the less. Please notice that when I use a word, there are several things I could be intending it to mean.) Our reality is one of symbols, thoughts, and concepts, all within the reality which is our mind. (Being that our minds are ourselves, and our minds are everything, we are everything, except everything else.) In the material world, there is no purpose, for such a thing is a concept. There is no meaning, will, desire, lack of desire, or feeling, though there be emotion. It is in our minds' reality that these things come forth, and thus only in us (as awareness’s, not just humans) is there any purpose, meaning, significance, interpretation, or feeling.
¶ The material world is secondary to reality, which reality is in the mind. The material world is a medium for organizing our thoughts. It's like a computer, full of data under the hood. We fill it up with archives, but we don't generally see the processes or numbers that it's calculating, we only see what shows up on the screen. I am typing this on a computer, and though I somewhat understand the workings of a computer, I cannot see much more than what's on the screen. Reality is one of concepts, which tend to be embodied in forms, colours, smells, and other such representations of the material world, out of the material world.
¶ Please excuse me if my wording is confusing, and consider the concept I've attempted to communicate. Don't try too hard to consider it in words, for you'd have to redefine all of your words to do so, and then you'd just have to re-redefine them again later to use them like you did before. After you have developed a greater understanding of the concept in whatever form of symbols however concrete, you will be able to find the words to attempt to discuss the concept, like my attempt, and as more people consider the concept, more people will be able to communicate it. This is the concept of concept, awareness of awareness, and the observation of the reality that exists behind our sight, and nowhere relative to our eyes, as our eyes exist nowhere relative to it. (Unless it has location in the material world? How would it if it, not being matter or energy?) Also, please excuse my inconsistencies, or better yet, don't.
¶ Now I hand the baton of this thought to you, which baton is a symbol, which is my point. The symbol of batons have meaning too us, even thought they, as material items, have no meaning to themselves or any other material thing. The concept of a baton though, communicates an idea, just as these letters, which have no meaning whatsoever in material reality, are meaningful symbols in our minds' realities. (A brain can process the associations with a baton, and the functions, and compare similarities between a baton and other events, (metaphor) but it is not aware of this processing without us, as awareness's, and none of it is real outside our minds.)
¶ I said only a fraction of what I wished to communicate, though I expect I communicated only a fraction of what I said. That happens a lot, which is why I'm asking you to explain the rest of this to yourself for me.