One of the arguments that materialist philosophers use to try to prove that material objects do not need the subjective in order to be real is that consciousness can imagine a consciousless universe in which its objects pass through time and space just the same as they would in a conscious universe.
However, such an endeavor is actually thoroughly and absolutely impossible. To begin, when one imagines a consciousless universe, one must ask oneself where the consciousless universe appears. The obvious answer is that it appears in the mind of the person imagining it. The imaginer thus immediately overcomes the absence of consciousness which he thinks he imagines, and supplies the consciouness necessary to mentally observe the movements of its objects through time and space.
One can only truly imagine a consciousless universe if one uses no imagination or observation. This endeavor is obviously self-contradictory and impossible. However, if one should exert oneself to the utmost to attempt to imagine a consciousless universe without using imagination, what would one observe? The obvious answer is that one would observe nothing. This nothingness would so completely hide all objects and movements, and even time and space; so that all one could know about the consciousless universe is absolutely nothing. This condition reveals the truth about all consciousless universes. They always equal absolute nothingness, and one can only imagine them by using an idea of nothing.
Then again, all of this speculation raises another question. If our universe was consciousless prior to the evolutionary emergence of consciousness, then how could life ever have evolved since the consciousless universe had to equal absolute nothingness? The obvious answer is that our universe has never been a consciousless one. An Infinite Consciousness must exist to supply our universe with constant creativity and reality.
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