The objective realm (reality) is not independent of subjectivity; objectively and subjectivity are two sides of the same coin, intrinsic to consciousness and meaningless without one another.
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A new pro-mandates essay is premised on begging the question: presuming that governments/experts are right when mandating vaccines, therefore ‘bodily integrity (from government intervention)’ amounts to ‘freedom to err’. Allow me to correct you: ‘Free not to err by allowing the state to meddle with your healthy innate constitution.’
Artificial Intelligence does not demonstrate that machines can be conscious, but only that it is possible for Homo sapiens to function without being conscious.
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There is no 'conscious object'.
The idea of a 'conscious body' or a 'conscious machine' or a 'conscious process' is a category mistake, equivocation between subject and object, a contradiction.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/you-are-not-self-aware
The idea of a 'conscious body' or a 'conscious machine' or a 'conscious process' is a category mistake, equivocation between subject and object, a contradiction.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/you-are-not-self-aware
Substack
You Are Not Self-Aware
The sense of 'I am' does not involve direct awareness of 'I', the locus of attention, the mind's eye, which is the logical counterpart and therefore always excluded from its focus.
You can have power over meaning, if you can conceive of it, and if you want it, otherwise someone else will do it for you - the priest, the politician, the expert, the influencer, the celebrity - making you subject to their power over meaning, to their creative will.
The ‘real world’ is internal to consciousness, because it has to be meaningful to be anything at all, and meaning is a property of consciousness, always negotiated, incessantly transformed by creative will.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/announcing-book-release
The ‘real world’ is internal to consciousness, because it has to be meaningful to be anything at all, and meaning is a property of consciousness, always negotiated, incessantly transformed by creative will.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/announcing-book-release
Substack
Announcing book release
Moral Ontology: a thesis on the interdependence of sense, integrity and agency
Amen Technology
Technology companies are the primary creators of meaning. They sell it to you and you buy it as ‘objective reality’, as ‘science’, as ‘truth’. They are your preferred suppliers of reality, and you are hooked, existentially dependent, because you do not create meaning, and you need meaning. When a plague is declared and the technology of salvation is offered, you have no choice, you are fully committed, or else you are facing the void of your own creative impotence and meaninglessness, cultivated meaninglessness, which is passed on from generation to generation. Give us our daily bread, our meaning, for we are hollow, lost without a shepherd. For thine is the kingdom, and Bitcoin, and the power, and the glory, Google forever. APPLE.
Technology companies are the primary creators of meaning. They sell it to you and you buy it as ‘objective reality’, as ‘science’, as ‘truth’. They are your preferred suppliers of reality, and you are hooked, existentially dependent, because you do not create meaning, and you need meaning. When a plague is declared and the technology of salvation is offered, you have no choice, you are fully committed, or else you are facing the void of your own creative impotence and meaninglessness, cultivated meaninglessness, which is passed on from generation to generation. Give us our daily bread, our meaning, for we are hollow, lost without a shepherd. For thine is the kingdom, and Bitcoin, and the power, and the glory, Google forever. APPLE.
A thing is just what the concept of that thing ‘means’. That meaning may include the capacity for constitutive change, but cannot include the meaning of the thing that changes. Its identity must endure through change, or it would not be the same thing. To change the meaning of a thing that endures change is to conceive of a different thing.
The real estate market is entirely policy driven, engineered, and as such amounts to insider controlled wealth expropriation machine. Those who know when the rates will go up or down can profit risk-free at the expense of others; for the outsiders it is no different to gambling in a casino against loaded dice. The casino is owned by the banking system.
The aim of philosophy it to transform subjective consciousness into objective reality, and thus resolve the conflict between them.
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Reality is collectively created and continuously negotiated. The individual has marginal influence on how reality is created, but some have more influence than others because they are aware of what they are negotiating.
A broken vase cannot be magically un-broken by us wishing it to be so, but collectively we may change what ‘a broken vase’ means and why it matters, and this is how we progressively create reality and ourselves.
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The common ontology (the world as we know it) is far from consistent. Parcels of consistency are compartmentalised and quarantined, where anxiety, fight flight, dependency, madness, pathology are all frictions/contradictions between them. This gives power to the influencers who can manipulate these connections to shift and transform the parcels of consistency. Total ontological consistency is a challenge too big for anyone, but the more logically consistent we can be across all the content of the common reality the more power we have to modulate its meaning. It can also make us immune to the influence of the ruling power that sustains itself by exploiting our contradictions.
The myth of ‘celebrity CEO’ is the reality of your consensual bondage to power. Their idea is your reality; you live in their mind and according to their will.
The idea of ‘thing in itself’ implies an idea that is not an idea, therefore contradiction. Anything that an idea signifies, corresponds to, or refers to is internal to that idea, or else it would not signify, correspond or refer.
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Speaking your mind is not equivalent to being ‘truthful’. Your mind may be inconsistent, your beliefs contradictory, and therefore false, and asserting what you do not know to be true is not truth. Most people, perhaps all people, are entirely incapable of speaking the truth, of being truthful, lacking a consistent standard of truth. At best they can occasionally make sense.
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Claiming wisdom without knowledge, and knowledge without proof, entails contradiction, therefore non-sense, which is of itself a proof of ignorance. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/derivation-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-from-the-law-of-non-contradiction
A Guru is made by the judgement of fools. It takes a fool to accept it.
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A provisional argument ‘why there is something rather than nothing’:
1. Consciousness is self-evident and implies that there is something rather than nothing.
2. Therefore, we know that there is something rather than nothing.
3. All identifiable existence consists in the idea of its identity as an existent, therefore existence is internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
4. Knowing that there is something rather than nothing is a sufficient reason that there is something rather than nothing.
5. There is something rather than nothing because consciousness.
6. Consciousness is timeless and has no cause, because time and causality are internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
EDIT: there is something rather than nothing because consciousness necessitates something rather than nothing.
‘Something rather than nothing’ is an essential property of consciousness, and the question ‘why’ presupposes consciousness. ‘Something rather than nothing’ is therefore presupposed by the question. This possibly makes the question logically inconsistent: implies that the implied answer is not implied.
1. Consciousness is self-evident and implies that there is something rather than nothing.
2. Therefore, we know that there is something rather than nothing.
3. All identifiable existence consists in the idea of its identity as an existent, therefore existence is internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
4. Knowing that there is something rather than nothing is a sufficient reason that there is something rather than nothing.
5. There is something rather than nothing because consciousness.
6. Consciousness is timeless and has no cause, because time and causality are internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
EDIT: there is something rather than nothing because consciousness necessitates something rather than nothing.
‘Something rather than nothing’ is an essential property of consciousness, and the question ‘why’ presupposes consciousness. ‘Something rather than nothing’ is therefore presupposed by the question. This possibly makes the question logically inconsistent: implies that the implied answer is not implied.