consciousness
sees the world outside itself as determined
consciousness sees itself - the world of consciousness as indeterminate
is indeterminate equivalent to free?
freedom?
I think it fair to say the mind regards itself - as being what it is (whatever that is) and
not what it is not
the mind is not free to be not mind
this being said
relative to the non-conscious world
the mind is -
free - or different?
different - yes
free - well I think yes if free is not determined
and here determined - is that which is non-conscious
I will stick with indeterminate
but in what sense?
the world of the mind is the world of knowledge
the mind is free to the extent that it does not know
that it is not determined by knowledge
I argue that knowledge is an illusion - necessary - but still an illusion
and so the mind is only determined - if we can use that word -
by illusion
to see through this - the illusion of knowledge
is to see to its absence
the absence of knowledge is what leaves the mind free
it is the reason for its indeterminism
in the non-conscious world - this question does not arise
or should I say it doesn't arise for the non-conscious world - just because it is non-
conscious
if this is how consciousness sees itself and sees the world
what can we say of the world in itself - per se?
well we can't say anything
nothing to be said
even to say we don't know -
is this going beyond bounds - strictly speaking?
we might need two senses of the unknown here
the unknown in the sense of the absence of knowledge
and the unknown in the sense of the world beyond knowledge
