Animal consciousness... have we been wrong?

[CCoburn]

It seems that "matter" is not a simple 'thing'... but a foundational relationship between waveforms and (perhaps) 'other' circumstances.

The primordial consciousness could be a form of light energy and it would be "foundational". In the famous equation you can set the material equal to (light) energy divided by the speed of light squared(m=e/c²).