Subjective and Objective Reality

 All of the copies that a copy machine can make happen to be just as real as is the original document copied. In a similar way, since consciousness can make internal copies of all that it can be conscious of, then the intelligent consciousness of humans must be just as real as its objective consciousness happens to be. This means all thought objects have to be real, including all abstract ideas, because intelligent consciousness can manipulate all of its ideas and use them to formulate useful and beneficial systems. This is the basis of human intelligence.

Some maintain that human consciousness happens to be just a product of brain function; that is, a physical entity. But consciousness is also aware of brain function. Just as no camera can take a picture except in the place where it happens to be, so a consciousness, separate from brain function, looks back at brain function in order to be conscious of it. If consciousness is but a physical entity, then it is a physical entity with the power to be aware of the brain function that produces it. But if brain function produces a physical consciousness that is capable of being conscious of how it is produced, then how can consciousness be aware of that fact? Since consciousness can never say anything about anything of which it is not conscious, then only another separated consciousness can look at a brain function that produces consciousness. This can only mean that human consciousness holds the power to be conscious of itself as an entity separate from brain function. Animals are conscious of something, but they are not conscious of their own consciousness. In addition, if humans can be conscious of their own consciousness, they need yet another separate consciousness to look back at their consciousness of their consciousness. And if humans can be conscious of their consciousness of their consciousness, then they need still another consciousness that moves toward infinity. That seems to be a tall order for a physical entity. Obviously, human consciousness cannot reach to infinity, but perhaps Infinity produces human consciousness. This can only mean that brain function does not produce consciousness, but human consciousness acts through brain function to cause humans to have a physical consciousness of their physical world.

Some argue that consciousness itself is not real. Yet consciousness holds the power to manipulate sense objects and/or thought objects to formulate beneficial and creative systems. Something that is not real could not do that. Consciousness can use all of its ideas, including the idea of nothing and the idea of infinity, in its formulation of its creative systems. This can only mean that everything of which consciousness can be conscious must also be real. Consciousness can have no unreal ideas. What about nonsense words? Nonsense words have a meaning. They mean nothing. That makes them useful because humans have to know the difference between something and nothing in order to be intelligent.

Yet humans can also formulate false systems that mean nothing and can even be destructive. But in order to form such false systems, consciousness can only do so by its misuse of its real sense objects and/or thought objects. Mathematics demonstrates this fact. False formulas such as 2+3=6 happen to be false even though every sign and number in it is, in itself, a useful, true and real idea. This happens to be true of all false systems formulated by humans. Falsity only occurs in false systems always comprised of true and real ideas, never in the real sense objects and/or thought objects that always form such systems. But how does human consciousness know when a system is false? Humans possess the real and useful idea of nothing by means of which it can recognize that a system is false because it is always useless and means nothing. Humans cannot be intelligent unless they know the difference between something and nothing. Humans can use the real idea of nothing in intelligent ways even though that idea, in itself, is wholly immaterial.

That which holds true about subjective reality also holds true about objective reality. Objective reality happens to be a consciousness of the physical world, including one's own body. Every false system in physical reality happens to be an hallucination, a misapprehension, an optical illusion, a lie, or some kind of misjudgment. Yet, every objective false system always comprises true and real objects of consciousness. For example, a person reports that he saw a UFO. He describes it as being a shiny, metallic disc. Whether UFOs are real systems or false systems is beside the point. If that person saw a UFO which was a false system, he nevertheless saw it as a false combination of true and real ideas supplied by his mind. "Shiny" is real, "metallic" is real, and "disc" is real. All false systems in objective reality fit into this category. All false systems in objective reality always comprise true and real mental copies of true and real objects and ideas. This can only mean that human consciousness never experiences anything that is not true and real. Falsity is always a human construction that always comprises a misuse of true and real sense objects and/or thought objects. Mathematics itself demonstrates this fact.

A person can even use his consciousness to objectify his own body since it is a physical object. This means that if a person says "I have a pain," he reports a true and real system about himself unless he is lying in which he reports a false system. But whether he is truthful or lying, he can use only true and real ideas in either system.

God has calibrated the entire qualia of human consciousness with reality. Humans never experience unreality except indirectly in false systems.