there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
- Jul 5, 2012
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If we take up/down, forward/backward, right/left and time as the four classic dimensions, consciousness can be considered as another. Without it, the others are meaningless, even arguably non-existent. Even reducing things to 'time/space', without awareness, the universe wouldn't matter. There would be nothing to notice that anything existed. To our manner of reasoning, it is almost as if consciousness exists in order to validate the universe.
This could be philosophical, it could be religious, but does not have necessarily to be either. It could be regarded as simply fundamental to reality.
This could be philosophical, it could be religious, but does not have necessarily to be either. It could be regarded as simply fundamental to reality.