CONSCIOUSNESS, MIND AND THE WORLD

AREA 3 THE MANY CONSCIOUSNESSES IN THE WORLD CONSTITUTE A SINGLE CONSCIOUSNESS

How can we show that the distribution is one?

First, they are one in the same way but to different degree that the many of the individual though in fact many are effectively one. Just as the distribution in the individual partake of the individual but are only occasionally in communication or in unity…similarly the agents of consciousness the individuals of the universe are also often in qualitative isolation but may also on occasion and in phases partake of the unity - of the one. Second, through the mutation of being[s] over the history of the universe… This is the integration over being and process which is the absolute that is nothing. Nothing? The combination of indeterminism [required by the process of creation] and determinism [the stable phase of indeterminism required or implied by being in the world that is not mere virtual being] show that the universe and the absolute have a phase of and are equivalent to non-being

We now see the unity of consciousness. This leaves our concept of the world inorganic even if dynamic in that consciousness and the world have not been shown to be integral. The question of the identity of consciousness and the world is taken up next