Monday, October 29, 2018

A Conscious Metaphor



Came across this neat little idea on the internet while researching a bit on the introduction to Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (okay, I was looking for help understanding what the hell I just read 20 pages of)

To paraphrase what I heard …

Consciousness is like a hole in a wall. It’s an absence, a void, a bit of nothingness – until something moves behind the wall, past the hole. Then you can see it. You can grasp it. Rather, this thing called consciousness does.

Still not sure I grasp it. But I like it.


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