or another way of putting it is to say
the essence of consciousness is focus - i.e. -
there is no focus in the non-conscious
the absence of focus defines the non-conscious
the object of consciousness is in the first place
the non-conscious (non-focus)
and secondarily - focus - or a focus
and thus thirdly - focus itself -
the point of focus - is that it focuses
on what is
and - that is - non-focus and focus
focus is a view - in a metaphysical sense
consciousness is this view
the world is viewed - through consciousness
or more correctly - the world sees itself in
consciousness
so - the appearance of focus - is another
description of the appearance of consciousness
and this appearance is not just another
manifestation of phenomena
or again - more correctly - not just the generation
of event or thing (on the non-conscious level)
yes - the point being that the emergence or -
the happening of consciousness is a change in
the nature of the world
it is the appearance of a dimension of reality
(for the argument's sake it doesn't matter if
consciousness is an emergent property as
they say - or was always there - or here)
it is - as some have thought the emergence
of the self
how do we account for this?
what is self?
at the most basic level - recognition
recognition of -
- objectivity?
yes - strangely -
and in such - is the reality of subjectivity
it is to say - that subjectivity and objectivity
are essentially one moment
the one moment split
so -
if we can speak of 'pre-self' -
we are speaking of a world - without object -
without subject -
what is such a world?
the unknown -
pure and simple
and is not the world - as we know it -
just this -
the unknown - revealing itself
in consciousness
in focus
this - we must think of - as a cosmological development
and if so
it is - one without reason
for reason - only comes with consciousness
the world itself is without reason
how different is such a statement to
the world is its own reason
the difference between everything and nothing?
