Self consciousness appears where 2D sign perception machine meets the 3D experience of the body.

The dissonance and mystery about human is that its conscious sign perception machine works in 2D.

That means flat letter seen, pictures in your head that mean something and formed as narratives. You see something “flat”. The picture seen by your eyes like a “person lying under a tree”.

Even if you have a stereoscopic eye sight, you see the flat meaning of things only.

What does that mean? Why they are lying there under the tree?

At the same time human body operates in 3D where it minds its spatial arrangement. It needs to survive. And feel good. Approaching the person under the tree you can touch them and check if they are ok.

Or is it as it seems in a sign it brings. Person is tiered and sleeping? Bored? Or dead!? Need to come and check.

And the driving force of it is the fundamental law of dramaturgy that exists. Consciousness needs a set of goals described and performed by a number of narratives on a time scale, and reaching them. Only then it can relate its progress to reality and feel itself.

And the sense of life seems to be to amaze the consciousness by an unexpected stories you can experience in life. Like when you come to check on that person under the tree, you just see the grass and flowers and an old plastic beg formed a shape that looked like a lying under the tree person from a long distance. Looking closer into it showed there never was a person.

Thoughts brought by computational dramaturgy. A branch of process philosophy and drametrics.