the mind reflects
it reflects on reflection
reflection of?
what I am suggesting is that the ground of reflection is unknown
so therefore?
our reflections on the unknown are
finally unknown
if so
what then is reflection about?
what is knowledge?
our reflections - the illusion of knowledge
yes
but still the question of knowledge
why knowledge?
on this view - if there is no knowledge - only the illusion of
what sense to speak of it?
knowledge as explanation
knowledge as underpinning to what is presented to consciousness
knowledge as description
there must be something there to be described
yes
but do we know what it is?
what would it be to know it?
this is the question
and I don't know how to answer it
how to address it
an account is a description
an ideal picture
perhaps any such picture is knowledge
and then for particular purposes we refine the issue
we are back to what is reflected
the relation of mind to its object
just is knowledge?
we can't step outside of this
knowledge is the mind in the world
the world reflected in mind
what then is the problem?
knowledge is reflection
what I am aware of is what I know
OK
awareness equals knowledge
or
awareness is the knower in the world
awareness is a feature of the natural world given entities that are aware
we - human beings - are aware of awareness
but we cannot say what awareness is -
only that it is the mind in the world
can we say what awareness is?
that it is an internal property of matter -
the inside of matter?
again we can say that such is the case
not why
knowledge as I am putting it - a feature within -
in the world -
it can only be a view
not the view
the view may be suggested - by the fact of a view -
but we cannot go there
the world cannot be contained in knowledge
it is rather that knowledge is contained by the world -
reflection on awareness is the attempt to explain - give a further description - provide another account
awareness just is the mind in the world -
the mind translates the outside to itself - to the inside - and then goes to work on it -
it is a translation from material to ideal
this is the idea
there is no objective view of this - no independent test of this translation
what happens happens
and the truth is we don't know
we can't know
is it therefore a relevant issue?
yes
but only in the face of the claim of truth or certainty -
these concepts derive from the vanity of awareness
I see what I see therefore it must be
actually - it is - I see what I see
and no further claim can be made
what must be - cannot be decided
not to say that it is not an interesting question for speculation
and perhaps addressing this question - is the source of creativity
but only because what must be
cannot be seen
p.s.
perhaps what I was trying to say is
we begin with the fact of the mind in the world
awareness and awareness of
the mind sees
what this seeing is - is not seen
what is seen is only
what is seen
to describe what is - it to reflect on it
it being the awareness
we can only say of this awareness - what it is not
in the attempt to define
and what it is not - is just that -
strictly speaking it can only be described logically
x and ~x
that's it
