Yet what are we conscious of, otherwise?

Is there some idealized state, if it is only perfect equilibrium? As soon as the equilibrium is broken and we have positive and negative, yes, they might cancel out immediately, but then they might break apart and each go toward infinity.

Have you ever have that fleeting sense of being the other person? Of that feeling of them, even when they are not around? Like being the tool or book you might be using, or reading, as an extension of your mind.

Could this stretchiness of consciousness imply the network is as essential as the node?

Space is the void and as such the equilibrium. It’s implicit in GR, as the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock is closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum, through which light travels at C. Yet space is equally infinite.

So how do they relate? Especially if consciousness is equilibrium?

Light does radiate toward infinity, while forms do colasece toward equilibrium. Since thought is the forms expressed by consciousness, might it be that while thoughts settle toward some degree of equilibrium, the underlaying consciousness is stretched out across the universe?

Like some guitar string, slightly fluctuating?