Is human consciousness inside a system, or set of systems, looking outward, or is human consciousness outside a system, or all sets of systems, looking inward?
Perhaps it is both.
We exist as, a U-know-verse, that has dragging, lagging, nagging rates of delayed effects( reactions ) and resultants from apparrent causal actions.
Over time, these spatial and time duration phenomena, accumulate as consciousness i.e. a perceptual, if not conceptual ability we call mind or access too mind.
We witness/observe expansion( unfolding ) outward as, EM-Radiation from stars, dying stars exploding, cosmic celastial jets, biological birth, growth and death( coming apart ) conscious awareness and knowledge accumulation.
We witness/observe contraction( infolding ) as compression of states of matter i.e. integral collection of fermions, bosons and any combinations thereof.
We witness/observe interrelationships( lines ) between the parts, that may integrate as systemic whole, which wholes appear to contain and in some cases emit speficical frequencies/vibrations.
Universe is poetry in motion i.e. a universe of interrelating frequency of motions, within a background of absolute stillness, together define a, U-know-verse.