What if consciousness were one? Would it still suffer, perhaps from loneliness or boredom? If so it might split itself into or project itself through several points of view and action in what we consider Time and Space. We perceive these other apparently sentient points of view as associated with material bodies, subject to physical laws. Conceivably, several of these new consciousnesses (really parts of the One) would suffer less than the One alone (All-One as my mother liked to say) because less lonely/bored.
But existing in Time and Space apparently requires playing in accordance with the laws of physics such as, only so many bodies can occupy one place at one time and, more importantly, too many bodies will consume too many resources too fast and create too much waste before eventually imposing great suffering on billions of us. I think Consciousness has played this game of projecting itself through an increasing number of POV's associated with a geometrically increasing number of material bodies long enough, to the point where the increase in information and decrease in boredom is no longer worth the increased suffering caused by the sheer numbers of our material bodies living beyond the limits our ecosystem can sustain for much longer.
