RE: A Necessary Being?
September 2, 2016 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2016 at 8:17 am by Gemini.)
(September 1, 2016 at 11:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I think a lot of this comes down to my experience of existence. In my experience, 100% of reality is both subjective and objective-- there's a perfect duality there between me the experiencer and whatever is being experienced. In fact, 0% of what I know (unless you call instinct knowledge) is knowable outside that subject/object duality.
This depends on the precision of one's own introspection, and there aren't any obvious or agreed upon ways to measure this. In my experience, there is no duality between the experiencer and the experienced. There's just experience.
Some experiences reference other experiences, in the sense of a collection of phonemes that reference a collection of qualia. The word "fish" references the qualia that constitute our experience of fish (the neuronal correlate of which is presumably a neurosynaptic connection between different areas of the brain). But when you analyze the phonemes as qualia, they have no reference or intentionality to anything, and it's redundant to add some entity which has an experience to our account of experience.
A Gemma is forever.