Saturday, August 13, 2011

Will, Consciousness, Comprehension

'Consciousness', as hitherto conceived here, is an immanent dynamic integrative process. Now, the formulation that has been presented, 'Will is the immediate object of Consciousness' primarily establishes a challenge to theories that posit some external item as its immediate object. However, that formulation still inherits the relation 'object of', which misleadingly connotes that upon completion of the process, Will remains external to Consciousness. To the contrary, Consciousness is the process of internalizing exercises of Will. Hence, a more accurate formulation is 'Will is the immediate matter of Consciousness'. Furthermore, to better avoid the legacy of the notion of 'consciousness' as having an object, 'Comprehension', understood as dynamic, more accurately connotes the internalization involved in the process of coming to awareness. Henceforth, then, 'Comprehension' will be used here to characterize the Formal Principle of Experience, and its relation to the Material Principle will be formulated as 'Will is the immediate matter of Comprehension'.

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