our senses give consciousness access to the outside (outside of consciousness) world
to the outside
what is this?
this relationship between consciousness and sense experience?
the inside and the outside
consciousness and the physical world?
this is the question
it is the question of knowledge
the outside is a dimension of the entity
the human being has internal and external dimensions
the totality - the person - if you like or just x -
just is these dimensions
can only be described in terms of these dimensions
the entity as such is best regarded as non-conscious and non-physical - as - an
unknown
still the question of the relation of the dimensions
the inside to the outside -
clearly aspects of a logical unity
and this unity - exists in both realms - is both dimensions
is knowledge - knowledge of the outside - the physical world - and knowledge
of the inside - say awareness of ideas
best seen as the point of unity -
that which is - a description of the unity - as unity?
clearly it has - an external / physical aspect
and at the same time - an internal - mental aspect
two aspects to knowledge - of the world - in the world -
it is not a question of interaction
or of one becoming the other
the analysis must be double aspect if it is to be complete?
awareness I argue is an internal property -
we don't observe awareness
(we are aware)
but awareness is partly awareness of the outside
awareness internalizes the outside?
transforms it?
what is the outside - outside of awareness
we can't say
OK - so knowledge is the internal dimension
yes
alright
what of the internalization -
what do we say here?
consciousness and the senses again?
what do we say here?
for clearly the senses
the physical -
the outside -
play a crucial role here
what is it?
what is the relationship?
I want here a non-causal account
for the causal makes no sense
yet it is basically the empiricist and indeed the rationalist approach -
for me it is a question of how to see this matter in terms of an inside / outside
paradigm
there is a third world view - i.e. - Popper
but this again is an interactionist view?
perhaps another tac entirely -
the question - why can't this matter be settled?
the question of mind and body -
this would be to say the matter cannot be resolved - why?
the relation between the inside (consciousness) and the outside (non-consciousness)?
could it just be - that to see - to know the relationship - there would have to
be a third view?
the view of what the relation is -
and we have no third view -
we have only what?
the view from the inside
yes
even so -
we know the senses are integral to the possibility of consciousness
i.e. - with no outside - no inside
that is we cannot in the argument just retreat to the inside - and say that's it -
the inside is knowledge - the outside the object - the point of - knowledge -
that which is known (primarily)
the entity is physical and mental
physical and mental are just dimensions of the entity
we really can't separate the two dimensions - once they are recognized
the entity as a whole ceases to exist -
a body without consciousness is no longer - a person
a mind with no body - is no person
the two dimensions just are the entity
the fact of consciousness - is the source of the knowledge of this
the question I am asking in one sense is -
how does that knowledge come about?
it is to ask for an analysis of the relation of inside to outside
could it be there is nothing to analyze?
that the relation just is the fact of - the nature of the entity
and as to how the inside relates to the outside - and visa versa
if the question - does actually make sense - we can't know the answer
we can only know the relation not how or why
what is the relation between the inside of a box and the outside?
p.s.
we think in terms of the senses as that means by which the physical / outside is
revealed -
but the outside is the revelation in consciousness
any explanation is consciousness' reflection on the revelation
the actual experience occurs - without explanation
it occurs as an unknown
the experience is an experience of unity
reflection divides
