But what is "consciousness" consciousness *of*? If consciousness is part of the world** (that is, if consciousness is one among various sets of existing "things") then any consciousness is consciousness of (part of) the rest of the world. But since consciousness in its highest manifestations is simultaneously *self-consciousness* consciousness is actually (partial) consciousness of the entire world. As such it always tells you a lot about the world. And this is the least of it. Since the world can only be "told" *to* a consciousness your knowledge of the world is coterminous with your real consciousness (of which what you call "the unconscious" is by far the main component). So study of the structure of consciousness is study of the structure of the world, which is totally inaccessible to you except as presented through your conscious "internal" and "external" activities.
It is fallacious to "equate" consciousness and the world for the simple reason that the world, being infinite in time and space, necessarily exceeds the total of whatever can possibly be present to the consciousness of all individual (therefore finite) conscious beings.
**definition: the world is everything that is the case
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos