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Tuesday, 3 December 2019
What is so impressive about the objective world is the way it hangs together, the way that each identified object plays a consistent role in multiple and open-ended contexts, as seen by you and as reportedly seen by others, measurable where it can be measured and qualitative just where qualities are required. All of this enables you to rely on its recurrences - with a few notable exceptions, for example socks, lost objects always eventually turn up - and it is this reliance, the fact that we can withdraw all attention and weight of belief from and object and then rediscover it via a route consistent with all of our other existential premises, that forms the kernel of the belief in its transcendent and material existence, or more simply constitutes both the materiality and the belief. It is an impressive machinery, and indeed it is wholly appropriate to experience wonder in the face of it, but it is also true that all of this takes place entirely within consciousness. So it is more parsimonious to conclude that consciousness is more than what we take it to be than that appearances, or arisings, are more than what we take them to be.
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