“Consciousness pervades space” is a weird phrasing that reifies both space and consciousness, and isn’t very believable to modern ears, imo. How about “consciousness appears as the experience of outer and inner space?” Any better?
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"the phenomenon of consciousness is orthogonal to the phenomenon of locality" does a lot to illustrate the value of statements that are inaccurate but poetic though
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More than orthogonal tho. The idea is that the categories “space” and “location” are models constructed by how we perceive. Thought-“space” and actual 3d extension, *as experienced,* are both analogies rather than absolute realities
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Tried to undercut that with “the experience of” but maybe it’s too weak. Problem is to avoid touchy ontology like “there appears to be space but there isn’t,” which throws people off track into philosophy, or pseudo mystical “Nothing Is Real, Not Even These Words”
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