The Manifestations of Reality, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 277
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The Manifestations of Reality:
A. As incomprehensible immediate sensory impressions.
B. As impressions held in the memory in two important forms and thereby rendered comprehensible and useful:
1. As an instance, a fact isolated from a whole.
- As involuntary snapshots of reality.
- As scientific method: facts subjected to empirical confirmation and sound reasoning, creating a sort of periscope from which we might see around the limitations of our senses. Thus, we see beyond “common sense,” learning that it is the Earth which revolves around the Sun and not the reverse.
2. As a type, a repetition of instances forming a single, cerebral impression, isolated from a whole.
- With the instances preceding consciousness through evolution or forgotten through repetition-blindness, the events manifest themselves cerebrally as “Reasons,” “Ideals,” “Laws,” “a priori,” “Causation,” “Truth,” “Universal,” etc.
- Such repetitions, when flayed by the “surface” view — that is, when restricted to “fact” and “formula” can only be seen as “Myths” ... and here the “existential vacuum” begins.
- Self-behaviorism, as organic method: preferred repetitions contributing to higher and more accurate recognitions of “Truth.”