we begin with consciousness
consciousness recognizes itself and that which it is not
so can we conceive a totality - the totality?
yes - it seems
but how does this work?
I can conceive my table - totally?
it's an object outside of consciousness
the totality - is not like this -
yes it is outside of consciousness -
but consciousness is inside it
so the conception of the totality
is that conception that includes consciousness and what it is not
consciousness in conceiving itself - conceives itself as in the world
in the totality
so the notion of the totality comes with consciousness' awareness of itself
in fact it is crucial to it
for consciousness to conceive itself - it must conceive itself as within -
within what it is not
what it is not -
is not the totality
the totality is consciousness and what it is not -
the conception of the totality - is - what - a dualism?
it is a conjunction
c and -c
which in my terms is not a statement of what the world is made of
that is - it is not a statement of substance
rather a statement of dimension
we know the world as an inside (consciousness) and as an outside - non-consciousness
what we can speak of is the world's dimensions
but here we are speaking of the world
and what is the status of this?
it is something like a necessary conception
necessary to conception
a platform for conception
an architectural feature of it -
a feature without which consciousness - it could be argued is not possible
self-consciousness that is
still how to categorize it?
a - necessary conception - might be the best we can do
even so
clearly - what we are talking about here
is -
the machinery of consciousness
consciousness being aware of this machinery
as reality
or is it - rather that the idea of the totality refers beyond consciousness?
beyond consciousness and what it is not?
but it is not a referral to a third reality -
it is a description - a shorthand -
for the reality of consciousness and non-consciousness
this is what?
if we don't analyze it -
it is for us - just what is -
whatever that is -
it is strictly speaking - an open statement
the open statement
