Prospect, World, Existence of Others

In a Prospectivist concept of Consciousness, previously introduced, one is a center of a field of potential Action that can be called a 'World'. Such a concept of the objects of Consciousness bypasses centuries of self-indulgent Epistemology, i. e. of armchair speculation about the 'reality' of those objects, with the accuracy of Perception a Practical problem resolved by trial-and-error methodology. For example, if Descartes' scenario were the starting or the dousing of a fire, speculation about an Evil Genius would be a silly distraction from the problem of determining the optimum arrangement of tinder and logs, as might have been Galileo's primary concern. Now, such a concept of World implies the possible existence of a plurality of Worlds, a concept that is less exotic than when 'world' is taken in an absolute sense. Furthermore, the problem of the existence of Worlds other than one's own, which entails that of the chronically vexing Philosophical question of 'the existence of others', is a lot less stymieing when those others are conceived as centers of Action, rather than as subjects of Perception. For, while many Philosophers, including even Sartre, have been mesmerized by the unprovability of the possibility of a Consciousness within the head of an Other, the mundane observation of someone else modifying some feature in one's World, e. g. of moving some object, or, more tangibly, walking up to one and pushing one down, more easily leads to the conclusion that there exists other Agents, with their own Worlds, which are outside of any "for me".