Descartes I would argue mistakes the awareness of non-conscious reality -
as an argument for God -
he asks quite rightly where does the idea of the outside come from - or strictly
speaking he doesn't ask this rather - where do our ideas of outside things come from?
as if there must a cause to the effect
but I argue it is not a question of cause and effect
it is awareness
perhaps he would term it - direct apprehension
(which he quickly dismisses)
my argument is that it is awareness of - the outside
awareness - that is consciousness - to be self-conscious - aware of itself - is by
definition - in its self awareness - aware of what it is not -
the world outside itself
awareness is not caused by the outside world
the outside world is not caused by consciousness -
these dimensions - simply exist -
the outside reflects on the inside
the inside on the outside
it is a dynamic relationship
consciousness impacts on the non-conscious
and the non-conscious impacts on consciousness
we are not talking here about substances
rather dimensions
dimensional analysis
gives us a way of organizing reality
explaining its basic structure and action
for conscious - self-conscious beings
what occurs for human beings has an internal dimension and an external dimension
we are aware of this - in fact this is awareness
an event in itself - an action in itself
is without description - unless described dimensionally
Descartes' argument of perfection
is really no more than the awareness that I a conscious entity exist in the world
that the world - the domain of my existence
is an ontological space I am in
it is not a question of greater and lesser - let alone perfection and imperfection
it is rather just the fact of an existent in a domain
the space of its actions
perfection is despite Descartes' attempt to mask it - a theological notion
that has more to do with his education by the Jesuits than sound philosophical
thinking about the nature of reality
