What's difficult to ascertain about all of this is meta-cognition in general. Is this really measurable past fleeting binary states self-awareness about your o

What's difficult to ascertain about all of this is meta-cognition in general. Is this really measurable past fleeting binary states self-awareness about your own self-aware state? Past that, I like your connection between naive idealist + self delusion, however I think you have described the human condition of curiosity, in which our conscience mind is able to imagine future states. Then, while we reverse engineer how to possibly do that, we create an ad hoc hypothesis (conscience or not) to end up in that future state. Therefore delusion is almost a necessity, as the mind has little way to tie this hypothesis causation to the ad hoc hypothesis. If a conscience mind accepts the imaginary future state of enlightenment as being one that they ought experience. The following question is ... how? This moment is exactly how I see your point fitting in especially with psychedelics.