Fresh Consciousness

If being conscious of any given factor does not necessarily involve active sensory input, then what causes the more vivid feeling of consciousness, when someone is conscious of their surrounding which they are perceiving via this active sensory input?

This feeling of consciousness is more vivid, because the factors of which the person is conscious of, are continuously being recorded as memories, and the memories are continuously, immediately being accessed.

Considering the abbreviated consciousness equation;

C = M (F + I)

C = Consciousness, M = Memory, F = Factor, I = Interactions of factor

And applying this equation to fresh consciousness;

C = fresh, vivid consciousness

F = multiple factors in the current surroundings

I = concepts of how those various factors are relative to the surroundings

The memories of factors within the current surroundings being accessed so quickly, causes accuracy and vividity of the memories. The brain's neurons record sensory input, and immediately after this occurs, more neurons fire (as is the process of memory access) to the same location where the sensory information was just saved. At this time, the regular process of consciousness of a factor occurs. Simultaneously to neurons firing to that information (memory of the factors which were just recorded (F)), neurons also fire to concepts relative to the same information (I). As a result of vivid memories of your surroundings, at the same time as memories of concepts which are relative to those memories of surroundings, fresh consciousness (C) takes place.

The longer time period there is, after memories have been recorded, until the time of the process of consciousness, the less vivid the consciousness is. This is directly correlational to memories, as the longer the time since a memory was recorded, the less accurate the memory can be recalled. Perhaps, the more time that has passed, the less likely that neuron is to be accessed again. Perhaps it takes a large quantity of separate neurons, each at an exact point with 1 portion of information, to collectively make a combination of information which represents any memory. If some of those neurons, containing a small portion of the overall combination, are not accessed as a result of time passing, then the overall memory would be less accurate. As time passes, and individual neurons are no longer accessed, the overall construct of a memory would gradually become less accurate.

As memories fade gradually over time, so does consciousness, since consciousness is only a combination of memories. If consciousness becomes stale, new information can just be acquired, for a refresher.