Consciousness, or the mind, is merely an ‘illusion’.

Kit Fitso wrote: Consciousness allows a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis to take place that looks at internal and external factors that can affect an organism. Internal factors are your strengths and weaknesses. External factors are the threats and opportunities.

This is not a linear but a dynamic process.

It occurs to me, after writing this, that this dynamic process is a balance between internal subjective priorities and perceived external factors. This enables an individual to appraise their positive and negative attributes regarding a particular goal or situation, the impact of external factors on the goal or situation, and guide them to make rational choices based on this analysis.

Kit Fitso wrote:

Kit Fitso wrote: Consciousness allows a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis to take place that looks at internal and external factors that can affect an organism. Internal factors are your strengths and weaknesses. External factors are the threats and opportunities.

This is not a linear but a dynamic process.

It occurs to me, after writing this, that this dynamic process is a balance between internal subjective priorities and perceived external factors. This enables an individual to appraise their positive and negative attributes regarding a particular goal or situation, the impact of external factors on the goal or situation, and guide them to make rational choices based on this analysis.

This has been well considered, but is still far from complete.

What I find striking is that in the anti-posted epilogue, you've gotten basically to the same conclusions as Heidegger (1927).

I tend to use the label 'affordances' for that part of the process of orientating some concept of self to the whole set of accessible stimulus;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
I can't go as far as to say whether it's required though, maybe. But it's a fun exercise to adjust how one perceives things in relational terms to ones own existence - as distinct from detachment but rather the stripping of concepts learnt which define things by their utility and therefore value (either negative or positive). It's that level and manner of analysis I associate to somethings 'essence' in comparison to it's more complex relationships to its environment (which I'd call its 'nature'). If you can boil down that redefinition of all things to a common denominator that it can in an experiential way serve as an analog of a ubiquitous underlying, fundamental nature (note essence becoming nature by virtue of being experienced, just not to contradict myself) ie the Force; in so far as to what might be possible with conscious awareness.
That sort of thing is quite foundational to many spiritual traditions, to dissolve acquired conceptual frameworks so one can make progress and stabilize oneself onto a rewarding path by developing an efficient vehicle of consciousness.