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Forgive me, but you seem to have it backwards. It is not physical matter that is primary, but consciousness. In other words, SCSPL or the holographic principle as it is known in mainstream science.

(Dec 12, 2025 10:03 PM)Ostronomos Wrote: [ -> ]CC, Forgive me, but you seem to have it backwards. It is not physical matter that is primary, but consciousness. In other words, SCSPL or the holographic principle as it is known in mainstream science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2r1NTK_lDw

Experience isn't explanatorily puzzling in the context of immaterialism, though. It is in the setting of rigid materialism -- devoid of any Russellian-like allowances -- that the manifestations of consciousness are a non sequitur add-on (or conjuring act) that do not fall out of its conservative account of matter.

re (post#29): "In the context of belief in matter that lacks internal states (materialism), it is the manifestations that are actually the enigmatic aspect of consciousness -- not self."

(Dec 12, 2025 10:36 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]

(Dec 12, 2025 10:03 PM)Ostronomos Wrote: [ -> ]CC, Forgive me, but you seem to have it backwards. It is not physical matter that is primary, but consciousness. In other words, SCSPL or the holographic principle as it is known in mainstream science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2r1NTK_lDw

Experience isn't explanatorily puzzling in the context of immaterialism, though. It is in the setting of rigid materialism -- devoid of any Russellian-like allowances -- that the manifestations of consciousness are a non sequitur add-on (or conjuring act) that do not fall out of its conservative account of matter.

re (post#29): "In the context of belief in matter that lacks internal states (materialism), it is the manifestations that are actually the enigmatic aspect of consciousness -- not self."

I am not merely building my understanding on a shaky foundation.

I hold steadfast to a metaphysical explanation of consciousness because of the logic and experience I used to ground it in. Materialism is an illusion created by mundane reality. The only way to solve the hard problem is to posit consciousness as the ultimate reality. This is an indisputable fact.