On Truth and Falsity

                           The Source of Reality

Another example of how the skeptics attack reality is that they adduce in their philosophy that no one can tell the difference between that which is real and that which is not real in appearances if one man is alive, has sight and is breathing, and another man is dead without sight or breath. pb. OP ps. 173-174. All humans are systems and very complex systems indeed. This means that the already existing elements of reality can be added or subtracted from their systems. When a person dies, their bodily consciousness loses all sense objects and thought objects, but that does not mean that sense objects and thought objects become unreal. This simply means that all of the sense objects and thought objects still retained by alive humans, including consciousness, becomes subtracted from the body of the dead person.

Reality happens to be a vast, interconnected system of sense objects and thought objects made possible by consciousness. When a person dies their body loses all contact with reality, but that does not mean that reality itself becomes unreal. As long as consciousness is real, there will be reality. Some consciousness partakes of reality in very limited ways, such as with bugs or germs. But an intelligent consciousness can manipulate a high degree of reality to formulate true or false systems.

When a person dies, their bodily consciousness and their reality becomes subtracted from their system. The only real system they have left is the fact that alive humans can see their dead body. A dead body has no consciousness of time and space. Since a dead body can have no idea of nothing itself, then it enters into a state of absolute non-existence except for the fact that alive humans can see the dead body. Within itself, a dead body enters into a state of absolute nothingness. This condition happens to be the only state of unreality. Conscious humans never experience unreality. Alive humans can use the real idea of nothing to indicate falsity which indirectly indicates unreality.

If a consciousless universe existed before the advent of any consciousness at all, then that universe would be in the same state as a dead human. There could be no time and space. Only absolute nothingness would non-exist. Consciousness could never evolve in such a universe because it would possess no powers of creation whatsoever. But if an Infinite Intelligence exists who possesses an Infinite Reality, then He could create a real universe with time and space, limited consciousness, and humans with intelligence and creative abilities because of their greater contact with His reality. Psalm 147;5 (KJB)