Our knowledge just is. Our ignorance just is. If we can shed all preconceptions including the psychoanalytic ones and think of ourselves in terms of our structure, of our quantum mechanics, of our quantum mechanical minimum possible operators, minimum possible observers, minimum possible choosers, minimum possible others, we can then build up a structure, an analog, a metaphor of ourselves which is more in keeping with what is actually there. Once a structure begins to recognize its own structure, then it can become conscious in a way that was not possible before it was aware it was a structure. A computer that begins to think in terms of its own software and its hardware reaches the boundary between software and hardware and begins to see that pure consciousness is a state of High Indifference.
Neutral reinforcement is where it is at.
We biocomputers have finally devised those computers outside ourselves which tell us who we are. We are the neutral observer, the neutral operator in a biocomputer who does not care about reward or punishment, who cares only about neutral reinforcement. The state of high computational indifference is amazing.