Only of consciousness can there be certainty of being, and yet on the conventional ontology of 'real things' consciousness must be forever in doubt, impossible to separate out from certain intentional behaviours which, bound up in causal chains, could as well arise without this mysterious additive. In the conventional view what has being is just there whether it is observed or interacted with or not, having being is the most perfect independence of any and all consciousness. This kind of being holds itself apart from an equally uncompromised non-being, a pure nothing. Curiously, this nothing is precisely the 'address' relative to such a view of consciousness and real being.