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Tuesday, 23 August 2022

If the basic mode of reality is possibility then the interaction of things can no longer be understood as simple causality, it must be something akin to convolution, the operation of one possibility upon another possibility. But perhaps it is already too much to speak of one possibility. Again, possibility differs from probability in that it does not assume a pre-given and measurable set of alternative outcomes, the latter could only be a limit case under certain kinds of convolution. Consciousness too under this paradigm becomes a certain kind of interaction, and that notion is in harmony with a certain intuition about consciousness: that it arises from an interaction of elements which are prior to itself, which are in a certain sense consciousness-like but without any of the apparent definiteness (e.g. qualia) which seem integral to it. Consciousness's seeming centrality, where the seeming itself belongs to entirely to consciousness.

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