In the case of minds, there is no territory of origination. Conscious phenomenal content appears as if from nowhere, hanged in the void, yet pervading and immanent. It is an inside without an outside (or vice-versa, depending on perspective). No amount of probing changes this very significant state of affairs. We can only infer, as we usually do, the second territory: that what we see represents a source reality which is somehow independent and separated from our constructed representation. But there is no such reality. Our inference is merely a semantic reflex wired into our very model of mind.
“
| — | an answer to a comment, “Mind - The need for a new model (Part 2)” (via wildcat2030) |
