"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
Footnotes2Plato 
All consciousness has a lineage to the origin, still present and persisting in the now.
All consciousness has a lineage to the origin, present now, and persisting, an ongoing genesis