Consciousness remains a mystery, physics remains incomplete, and science requires a paradigmatic revolution to sufficiently explain how consciousness manifests within the world in the first place or at all. But science’s unrelenting concentration upon only that which is manifest will never yield this explanation because the very possibility of consciousness—moreover, the possibility of existence itself—begins prior to what is manifested within the actualized world and realized experience. Rather, it emerges from the radically preconditional realm of existentially exhaustive Possibility simpliciter.…
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The Possibility of Consciousness
May 1, 2023