Another issue around sense-consciousness I would like to raise is the 6-fold classification in the EBTs, which to me feels rather contrived. I work regularly with the sense bases in the context of satipatthana, so I understand the usefulness of focusing on different sense-bases at different times.
However my experience of consciousness is more like a torch beam, which I direct to different aspects of experience at different times - more deliberately when practising satipatthana.
Also that consciousness is actually composite, eg if I’m watching a film there will be visual and aural inputs combined. As an analogy, we can split a light beam into different wavelengths/colours by using a prism, but the light we see is actually all those wavelengths/colours combined.
Your thoughts?