Conocimiento ...
Estudia: Happy Labor Day, Phi!
Philo: Same to you.
Estudia: Well, now at least we have something to labor on or with or about - existence, or maybe I should say Existence with a big E. So what does that imply?
Philo: Well, it implies that you exist possessing some means of knowing that something exists.
Estudia: Huh? How does it imply that?
Philo: You perceive something, right?
Estudia: Yea, we agreed on that. There is something, out there, in here, somewhere.
Philo: Good. That means that you possess the means of knowing that. We call the faculty of perceiving that which exists consciousness.
Estudia: Whaaa ... whoo. Wait a minute. Now I have faculties? I am conscious? How do I know that?.... Never mind, don’t answer that. I see that is a dumb question. Of course there IS SOMETHING and that implies that I am aware of it. So I have to have a means of perceiving it, right?
Philo: Exactly. That’s your consciousness. And you can be assured that if you are alive you are going to have some faculty of knowing something about existence. Otherwise you will not know anything. I don’t know exactly how consciousness works and in fact no one I’ve heard about does either. Lots of work to be done there, but even if someone figures out that it is just a result of a time delay in sensory response or mind-o-quarks jumping in and out of quantum states, it still wouldn’t change the fact that consciousness is a fundamental axiom.
Estudia: Why?
Philo: Why? Why, before you can understand or talk about anything, you first have to be conscious of something. And besides, you have to recognize the fact that you are conscious of something to be conscious of something. Consciousness is the faculty of perceiving that which exists.
Estudia: So Existence exists and that means that something exists which I perceive. It also means that I exist and have consciousness because that’s how I know something exists. Right?
Philo: Beautiful. Do you see the beauty of that? You can’t excape these axioms I tell you. They are irreducible fundamental primaries and implied in everything about you, me, everything. Existence exists! I could shout it with joy.
Estudia: And I exist and know it. I do see that. It makes me feel good just knowing that it is so simple. I’m thankful for you clearing that up for me. I’m thankful to Existence for just Being, and I’m thankful for consciousness too. I want to use it better and know more, will you help?
Philo: Me? Of course, you know I will. Whatever you may learn, whatever you may study, I’ll be thankful too and we will know that the axioms are unchangeable. Whatever it is “it” exists and you “know” it.
Estudia: ¡Gracias, y ahora yo sabe!
Philo: Same to you.
Estudia: Well, now at least we have something to labor on or with or about - existence, or maybe I should say Existence with a big E. So what does that imply?
Philo: Well, it implies that you exist possessing some means of knowing that something exists.
Estudia: Huh? How does it imply that?
Philo: You perceive something, right?
Estudia: Yea, we agreed on that. There is something, out there, in here, somewhere.
Philo: Good. That means that you possess the means of knowing that. We call the faculty of perceiving that which exists consciousness.
Estudia: Whaaa ... whoo. Wait a minute. Now I have faculties? I am conscious? How do I know that?.... Never mind, don’t answer that. I see that is a dumb question. Of course there IS SOMETHING and that implies that I am aware of it. So I have to have a means of perceiving it, right?
Philo: Exactly. That’s your consciousness. And you can be assured that if you are alive you are going to have some faculty of knowing something about existence. Otherwise you will not know anything. I don’t know exactly how consciousness works and in fact no one I’ve heard about does either. Lots of work to be done there, but even if someone figures out that it is just a result of a time delay in sensory response or mind-o-quarks jumping in and out of quantum states, it still wouldn’t change the fact that consciousness is a fundamental axiom.
Estudia: Why?
Philo: Why? Why, before you can understand or talk about anything, you first have to be conscious of something. And besides, you have to recognize the fact that you are conscious of something to be conscious of something. Consciousness is the faculty of perceiving that which exists.
Estudia: So Existence exists and that means that something exists which I perceive. It also means that I exist and have consciousness because that’s how I know something exists. Right?
Philo: Beautiful. Do you see the beauty of that? You can’t excape these axioms I tell you. They are irreducible fundamental primaries and implied in everything about you, me, everything. Existence exists! I could shout it with joy.
Estudia: And I exist and know it. I do see that. It makes me feel good just knowing that it is so simple. I’m thankful for you clearing that up for me. I’m thankful to Existence for just Being, and I’m thankful for consciousness too. I want to use it better and know more, will you help?
Philo: Me? Of course, you know I will. Whatever you may learn, whatever you may study, I’ll be thankful too and we will know that the axioms are unchangeable. Whatever it is “it” exists and you “know” it.
Estudia: ¡Gracias, y ahora yo sabe!
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