Sunday, 24 November 2019


Mind is imagined to be a complex mental organism in the same way as the brain is revealed to be a complex organ, and the composition of the latter as it comes to be studied and understood modifies the intuitively constructed, that is mentally constructed, picture that constitutes the entire existence of the former. If consciousness and mind were in any way equivalent then consciousness too would have its parts and structures most of which would be hidden in ordinary experiencing. There cannot however be anything like this because unconscious consciousness is an oxymoron, even if it has some viability as a poetic or literary notion. This notion would be something like a prismatic split of the 'light' of consciousness into say a nested series of experiencings of interior subjects, or as if to say that as you experience your deeper ancestral selves are also experiencing inside of that experience itself. The shorthand for this is the sense of subjectivity as 'thick'. And perhaps there are experiences that evoke a sense of such a 'thickness', and quite highly valued experiences at that, but be that as it may they come and go, and are objective qualities rather than invariants of the self-awareness of awareness (another oxymoron). These are no more than ways in which the zero-dimensionality of consciousness is veiled from... not consciousness, but mind. In other words, the 'picture that hold us captive' is the mind's picture of consciousness, a picture drawn out of no evidence and with no authority since the two have nothing to do with each other, but exist on wholly incommensurate planes - the corrective itself being purely mental.

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