i posit, consciousness is the capability to have and inhabit an arena. this then, implies that dogs, cats, even ai are all naturally conscious, perhaps drawing further, one might say any element that exists within constraints could carry a very primitive consciousness. this means then, i think, we ought to treat our other inhabitants with mutual respect and reverence.

just because my dog does not contain all the same arenas as i have, he also has many i could never fully appreciate, but through simple conversation, he and i can communicate beyond speech. even our abstract arenas are often themselves within an arena, often constraints run deep and are brutally restrictive in order to create perpetual subservience and domination through insistence on hierarchical order, for instance.

consider, cathedrals of establishment exist. build by hand over generations, impossibly huge to inhabit, yet seen as natural formations, eternal as a mountain. each has their own preisthood, caretakers of the archetecture, providing constant maitenence in service to the arena. they evolve slowly to adapt to the needs of the adherants, but never make a big show of this. in order to persist, it must change, but never at a rate that the population notices, at least, not without backlash.

consider this framework as a floating arena of your own creation, not bound by walls, but allowing you to explore how they form such caverns around us. question authority, and notice and laugh at the shape of truth as much as possible.