Aside: I've been calling the pixelated unit of the eververse a pixel. I did this because the video you hopefully watched did so. I figured why pointlessly complicate things. I was just going to stick this in the glossary but then I thought that might be confusing too. So, for no other reason than I 'know', the basic building block pixel is called a seru. I Goggled, lots of anagrams but it seems the word doesn't exist yet.

So, quantum theory tells us that physics requires a choice. And choice requires a consciousness. And like the insane idea that matter is almost entirely empty space with the little solid bits whirling around, this seemingly impossible idea was predicted by theory and backed up with repeatable experimentation.

Whether you know it or not, this is the most important aspect of the universe to you. If this were not true the universe would just be one big, extremely complex series of mathematical processes that given enough data and understanding you could look at the beginning and determine the end. The universe, and therefore our lives, would be predetermined and meaningless.

But add observation, consciousness, and choice into the equation and it becomes a whole different ball game.

Which brings us back to "What is consciousness?" And the best I can answer is a rather semantic "something capable of making a choice." I know, helpful. But that is the intrinsic requirement. Period. It doesn't need to be sentient, self-aware, organic or much more complex than the state it is observing. It just needs to be capable of deciding a state - making a choice.

At the basic bottom level it's something capable of deciding the spin (spinward, anti-spinward or content) of one end of an axis of a pixel/seru.

Aside: if my math is right, each pixel has 36 axes - three cubes turned in on itself each with 12 axes. Though I have some confusion on whether the omnia 'edges' have axes. If not then a pixel has 24 axes.

I think it is far from sentient. It's just barely aware enough too observe and react to it's environment.

Then, like everything else in the universe, it has self-organized, layer upon layer in ever growing complexity until you reach our level of complexity and layers of consciousness. And why would it stop there? Continuing layer upon layer until it is the entire eververse forming a single upper level consciousness. Or maybe many segregated upper level consciousnesses. Or configurations I can't conceive. There is no way to tell. Not even in Sid's time.

By now you are probably itching to ask a question:

This is simple: I have no clue.

I do have assumptions and conjecture. But heads up this is just me winging it. The question states there was no consciousness. The double slit experiment proves without observation there is no variance. Whatever came before, began, ran through a complex (had to be) set of interactional rules in one directional cause and effect. The rules of physics would be quite different. Every assumption on their formulation is almost certainly wrong. But somehow in the playing out of those sequence of events a very rudimentary consciousness developed. Almost certainly not organic and in the area of the subatomic, if such terms applied. But it could observe and choose. And the first frame choice came to be. What had been an orderly series of membranes binding the infinite omnia went wildly askew as choices led to more choices, previous order became chaotic, consciousness grew or split and the effects flashed forward. And backward, essentially reinforcing itself in a growing feedback loop. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the big bang.

But that is just how I envision it. This isn't Sid. This isn't anything I dug out of the net. This is just me trying to summarize how I've fit the pieces I have together to answer the questions I have.

Aside: My question of how infinite omnia came to be remains as unanswered as where the mass of the big bang came from in the standard model. However as something can not grow to become infinite it can be postulated that omnia and the bounding membranes, which also have to be infinite, have always been. Even before consciousness. How? No idea. But it is the one thing we can be assured of.

Shall we continue even farther down?