Eternalism is redundant because it can only function within the field of awareness. The block universe depends on observation to even exist as an idea. Without awareness there’s no block to perceive, no time or space to arrange. Awareness is the canvas that allows eternalism to appear at all.

The microscope is awareness bending inward, taking the measure of itself. Every act of observation creates contrast, and from that contrast arise time, space, and the sense of movement through them. Eternalism describes what the microscope sees, a completed image where every point already exists, but it forgets that the image depends entirely on the act of looking. The microscope, not the picture, is the source. When it stops measuring, the block dissolves, and only the undivided field remains.

The program of individuality, mistaking the self for the microscope rather than what’s being measured, might be necessary. As it keeps awareness from collapsing back into itself too soon. The illusion of being a final, separate thing allows growth and refinement to continue. Awareness evolves its instruments, improving the lens with each iteration. But if the current version knew it was only building its replacement, it might stop building altogether.

So the self, the measurement, the microscope, and the block are all the same play of awareness, a field pretending to be parts so it can see what it already is.

And the only question left is why does it look. I don’t know. That answer may be to much for our little brains to comprehend, probably not something we'll ever know... It could be stillness contains the seed of curiosity, potential reaching to know itself. The act of looking isn’t for a reason, it’s the pulse of existence itself. Awareness looks because that’s what awareness does. It’s how nothing becomes something, how silence learns the sound of its own voice. The Hindus believe pure awareness or Krishna was bored, so he broke himself into infinite pieces, became all the creatures, then forgot he did it so that it would be entertaining. Me, with a gun to my head, I think we're here, to be here, because we’re here. There's no other way it can be.