The Monolith; Prelude to a Metaphysics of Becoming

Human beings were invaded by the Monolith, the Other ... that is: the Knowledge of Mortality.

The Other exists inside us, as a knowledge of the opposite forces of nature.

We are synthesis of analytical models (mathematical truths) with spacial (visual) abstraction (archetypal [metaphorical] truths).

Temporal duration is the primary characteristic of the Real, or the Actual, which is in constant rebellion against the Absolute.

Temporal duration as the functional characteristic of the Actual, negates the existence of the Absolute.

All that is Actual is interrelated, resulting in a closed system [Kosmos] in which energy can be neither created nor destroyed (Conservation of energy). Energy patterns in temporal flux constitutes the Actual. This is what Schopenhauer may have referred to as the Will. As agents of the Will, our existence is necessitated only by our Death, a knowledge of which results in an imagining of the Absolute as a resolution of the temporal flux which constitutes the Actual.

The Absolute as a creation of our imagination, is merely a mechanism of the human psyche, a measure of the imagination towards resolving the conflicts inherent in existence and overcoming death anxiety.

This has reached many idealistic manifestations, from primal animistic religions, to anthropomorphic polytheism, to Abrahamic monotheism, to New Age neo-mystics, to scientific transhumanism/utopianism.

Because the arisal of conscious awareness can be explained within the constraints of current evolutionary theory [see: my paper Against Naturalism], we must understand that it plays a functional role in the survival of an organism. Because all things that exhibit temporal duration constitute the Actual, and because the Actual is a reaction against the Absolute (or non-existence, unReal), we know that consciousness is emergent from objects that display a temporal duration.

Because all energy patterns which constitute the Actual are interrelated, any object which exhibits temporal duration is simultaenously whole and non-whole: it is an entity in and of itself, while also being a part of a larger entity [e.g., a slice of ham between two slices of bread is both a single enitity (slice of ham) and part of a larger entity (sandwich)]. That goes to say, that any object, state, or event that is Actual is also self-referential. This is not the case, however, for conscious awareness. Consciousness is entirely referential-to. It is not existent in-itself but exists as a discreet value attained by its difference-to another value. Thus, consciousness emerges from the interaction of subject-object. It relies on what is Actual for its existence, and is always modeled after/co-modified with it.


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