The world is fundamentally unconscious will which is divisible into what can be described by the physical concepts of matter and energy, which are the causal constructs imposed by consciousness on the metaphysical will.
The world is comparable to a continual transfer of electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa. The continual motion of mass via energy. The transfer of photons between electrons and the transfer between gravitational energy to kinetic energy between material bodies. Wavelength motion in mediums. Motion and attraction/repulsion between bodies. Enough energy for some reason was converted into rest mass so that space is filled with objects which light passes through, taking different forms in these processes which result from the motion of light energy through mediums (heat, color) and governing interactions between the objects in space exchanging electrical charge (electromagnetic force).
Space and time, as distinct from our perception of them, are physical things which are affected by energy. What we call space is just another feature of the gravitational field of the universe; space-time does not exist apart from the matter and energy that creates the gravitational field. Energy is convertible into mass, e=mc^2. Energy and mass warp the fabric of the phenomena of space-time.
It is the existence of matter that allows us to see light in a visible form, both as an object and as a subject.
A world of pure light would be blinding and incomprehensible. Light become matter so that we could comprehend it, so to speak. A world of pure space would be dark and indistinct, without light. The existence of material objects gives us the contrast of the light and dark, light and "empty" space. Pure light and pure dark have no color, just as when one looks directly into the sun or into space. It is the sky around the sun and the planets in space which have color. It is the interaction of energy with mass and space-time which constitute the world we inhabit.
In light we can understand how the different things can be fundamentally the same, such as mind and body. Light has aspects of both particle and wave; a field of force and a particle. Our vision is due to the mechanical movement of the retina and the transfer to electrical energy via the optical nerve to the brain. In a medium light travels at different wavelengths, which seems to slow down the speed of light. However the speed of light is finite, even in a vaccuum. Light still travels faster than anything else in a medium, so the the law of causality still holds for other phenomena. This is how people can see different colors, while the wavelengths of light being the same.
Light is our awareness of the world, our personal connection to the universal energy. Light is the free energy not bound to do work by its nature. After exchanging energy with objects, light travels at its speed as a massless particle. Thought processes are synonymous with the nervous system which is comparable to a system of electric signals. Mind's qualities of simultaneity and instantaneity of events as compared with matter is like the activity of an electromagnetic field. Electromagnetic processes occur at the speed of light, a transfer of energy from one particle to another. The speed of light is the speed of causality because it occurs faster than anything else as it is in itself free of causality. Light travels faster than anything else because light has no rest mass, meaning that there is no energy to overcome to accelerate. At the speed of light all there is no distance between events, there is no before and after, only the present.
It is everything else, including our bodies, which have rest mass which fall under causality. Since force equals the product of mass and acceleration, F=MA, with no rest mass the speed acceleration is as great as the energy gained by motion. As E=Mc^2, light is pure energy free of individuation within space and time since light has no rest mass to overcome its acceleration.
The existence of rest mass, our body, is the physical analogue to desire as the source of suffering. Because of rest mass we don't live in the present. We can imagine different states of affairs, but not always act in accordance with them. We have to choose among alternatives presented and not created by us. We form expectations about the future and fixations about the past which do not reflect the present. In animals and indeed for most humans in most of their history little energy was free to speculate on the different possibilities. Thus for us the idea is different than reality, creating duality and opposition between things. But living things are dynamic, constant energy converting machines. The meaning of the idea is only in the transient individual forms. The objects of consciousness define the meaning of existence. Individuality and suffering are bound into the nature of conscious existence.
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