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Objectivity is Unnatural
Remember that objectivity is unnatural. To objectify is to separate and distance one part of an experience as an object of another part’s sensitivity.
If we begin with the universe as an eternal dream-like experience*, biology or life is to dream that the rest of the universe is an object. It is the first level of dream within a dream…a dream of nature one step removed. This is a huge step. It isolates one tiny sliver of nature in a spatio-temporal contract of mortality during which almost nothing can be sensed at all. It is a nearly senseless void except for whatever primitive sensations and emotions characterize life (pain-pleasure, tension-relaxation).
The first level of life objectifies the rest of the universal dream as a geometric-tangible edifice of non-life and ‘real’ surfaces (since it poses an existential threat to the mortality contract itself).
The second level of life adds the dimension of intentional movement. This adds to the realism of the non-living world with a new realism of self-as-body. Even on the microbiological scale, the animal experience is founded on the awareness of self as tangible body (object, shape, morphe) navigating purposefully in a world of tangible objects. This is the beginning of the phoric-morphic duality, and the ancestor of our subjective-objective sense of duality.
The third level of life adds a brain to the body. This is essentially a Level 2 body nested within another Level 2 body, nested within a Level 1 life within the Level 0 dream/God/cosmos. This nesting adds a second level of objectivity in which both the body and the world of the body can be viewed from a distance. The brain gives us an invisible body from which we can not only experience as subject-objects (living bodies) but thinking selves who can think about ourselves as intangible subjects and tangible objects, and also the world in the same ways, and also all of the relationships between the two. That’s another huge leap and it gives us the dimension of intentional thought…right and wrong thoughts.
The fourth level adds a level beyond the brain and thinking mind, which we have to infer or intuit because is can’t be perceptually objectified while we are alive. This is what makes us fully, deeply human and allows us not only to subj-objectify ourselves and the entire natural world, but to do the same for subjectivity-objectivity itself.
Of course this is only a rough sketch. There may be more intermediate levels, especially between 0 and 1 where stars and atoms become objectified by experiences which are later objectified as molecules and solar systems, etc.
Anyhow, I hope that helps some/any of you understand what I’m proposing and what I mean by Multisense Realism: A single universe of anesthetically** nested aesthetic experiences in which the nesting polarizes and extends qualities of realism-fantasy, objectivity-subjectivity.
*Dream-like in the sense of having no more ‘real’ substrate, not in the sense of being insubstantial or unreal.
** Spatial, temporal, and modal appearances of entropy.
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Emergent properties can only exist within conscious experience.
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Neither matter nor information can ‘seem to be’ anything. They are what they are.
It makes more sense that existence itself is an irreducibly sensory-motive phenomenon – an aesthetic presentation with scale-dependent anesthetic appearances rather than a mass-energetic structure or information processing function. Instead of consciousness (c) arising as an unexplained addition to an unconscious, non-experienced universe (u) of matter and information (mi), material and informative appearances arise as from the spatiotemporal nesting (dt) of conscious experiences that make up the universe.
Materialism: c = u(mdt) + c
Computationalism: c = u(idt) + c
Multisense Realism: u(midt) = c(c)/~!c.
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