Apr 25, 2026 07:51 PM
We know the physicalist worldview of an entirely unconscious reality going on without anyone being conscious of it betrays its ideality in the very fact that this whole consensually-enforced scenario is itself only something realizable mentally, or even metaphorically. It is not a perceived empirical state of reality itself.
It is as if consciousness itself is the one metaphor that must disappear in order to make reality appear conceivable as just this physical non-subjective universe. It is only thus by contrast to a concurrent consciousness itself, as a purely mental event of conceptualization, that physicality emerges in our experience as the absolute absence of such in the world, But even that is just another metaphor we are mentally generating, a metaphor that ironically negatively defines our conceptualization of the mind and consciousness. IOW, consciousness becomes conceived as unextended and non-physical in essence. It is experienced as apparent only as the metaphor defining it as real, which is physicality, disappears and seems to not exist at all.
Psychologically speaking this is the activity of projection, which is experiencing something as other and objectively real by repressing into unconsciousness our concurrent state of consciousness and feelings about it. This case I’m now discussing happens on a higher level though while replicating the same kind of dialectical mechanism. I call it “epistemic projection". It is how in our present age reality becomes solely defined as whatever exists and goes on without us experiencing it at all, a thought which itself can only feel so real and certain because we are only experiencing it as such!
Thus while it seems undeniable that there are trillions of stars that are totally real (aka physical) without us knowing about them, it is only by inferring them precisely as existing unknown in our own consciousness that we can ever know this! But how can we ever know that something is existing that is inherently and absolutely unknown? Such epistemic hurdles or stumbling-blocks stealthily lurk in the depths of our seemingly most self-evident assumptions.
It is as if consciousness itself is the one metaphor that must disappear in order to make reality appear conceivable as just this physical non-subjective universe. It is only thus by contrast to a concurrent consciousness itself, as a purely mental event of conceptualization, that physicality emerges in our experience as the absolute absence of such in the world, But even that is just another metaphor we are mentally generating, a metaphor that ironically negatively defines our conceptualization of the mind and consciousness. IOW, consciousness becomes conceived as unextended and non-physical in essence. It is experienced as apparent only as the metaphor defining it as real, which is physicality, disappears and seems to not exist at all.
Psychologically speaking this is the activity of projection, which is experiencing something as other and objectively real by repressing into unconsciousness our concurrent state of consciousness and feelings about it. This case I’m now discussing happens on a higher level though while replicating the same kind of dialectical mechanism. I call it “epistemic projection". It is how in our present age reality becomes solely defined as whatever exists and goes on without us experiencing it at all, a thought which itself can only feel so real and certain because we are only experiencing it as such!
Thus while it seems undeniable that there are trillions of stars that are totally real (aka physical) without us knowing about them, it is only by inferring them precisely as existing unknown in our own consciousness that we can ever know this! But how can we ever know that something is existing that is inherently and absolutely unknown? Such epistemic hurdles or stumbling-blocks stealthily lurk in the depths of our seemingly most self-evident assumptions.