Q: What is ‘the explanation’ for ‘phenomenon (x)’.
A: Explanations are not phenomenon. They are toys. Where toys become the arbiters of meaning, identity and function, deadly ignorance ensues.
And little else.
“Why should we imagine that any explanation could encompass any phenomenon? None do. Not one. ‘Explanations’ are often something that happens as a result of decontextualization, yet more than half of any phenomenon is in the context, not the subject. It is not reasonable to presume that explanations ‘explain’ reality, they do not. They are, instead, something like theories of identity and function. These have their place, but this place is never as the declarators of function, meaning, or identity.
As for explanations, they tend to come in a few varieties. Here are the basic categories:
1. Supernatural/Spiritual.
2. Psychological/Mental.
3. Epiphenomenon (side effect of having brains).
4. ‘Third order’ (an unknown category like a superposition).
Wierdly, none of them can tellingly exclude the others. No one actually knows what this phenomenon represents; what we have, instead, are basically ‘churches of theory’. Personally, I would recommend not joining any of them. Ever. This doesn’t mean that they should not be examined or explored.
As for what this phenomenon ‘truly is’ or represents, if you want to find out, as with anything else, you will have to become the pioneer — and learn the skills that will allow you to explore it without succumbing to some particular explanation. After all, once we ‘have an explanation’… “the matter of identity is closed” and, effectively, a lot of our learning potentials evaporate in the dead atmosphere that results. Unless we use explanations in a rather unique and far more opportunistic fashion.”
0 Comments