consciousness brings indeterminacy to the world
this has great implications for the bearers of consciousness
- nothing for the world
consciousness is - if this is so - a secondary feature
of reality - it is not fundamental
whatever your view of the nature of consciousness -
it is 'brought to' reality
if you like you can think of it as imposed upon -
non-conscious reality
a secondary quality
you may wish to see it as specific to a class of existents
what I want to say is morality is consciousness'
response to itself
morality - the realm of morality - if you like -
is consciousness' response to its indeterminacy
'what I should do' only arises because of indeterminacy
(because of consciousness)
putting it crudely - consciousness brings choice to the world
morality - the theory - the practice - is the mind's
response to this - to this fact of itself
it is as it were - the mind's attempt to resolve itself -
or even to defy itself - deny - you could say -
(depending on which side of the bed you up wake on)
what we know though is that the point of this
indeterminacy (from consciousness' point of view)
is resolution
I suspect consciousness understands itself as an indeterminate
state in a determinate world - the natural instinct here is to
resolve into the determinate totality
this though - is never possible -
hence we have an unresolvable tension - between consciousness
and the world
it is this that is the dynamic of conscious life
