One of the simplest ways to look at it is as the rivalry between perception and conception. When you get right down into the close weave of experience is it woven out of ideas, out of generalised algebraic units of engagement or does it depend vitally on direct encounter with its world, ineluctable units of pure relation which are relentlessly filtered by mental cascades and transformed into social currency. The conceptual view is the only one compatible with materialist theories of mind, although this is often obscured by the way in which these privilege embodied and enactive paradigms; they remain programmatic and linguistic in spirit even if the deeper layers are more like assembler code. The perceptual view s the mystical and theological one, and also perhaps that of panpsychism. It answers to the tendency of the former to fall into infinite regresses, into ungroundedness. This rivalry emerges in different field under different names and in different terms. It is the kind of dilemma which can't e resolved on the level in which it arises. The point is to discover the falseness of the question from a position free from either view.