To summarize the commentary of Michel Bitbol in The Systems View of Life page 266 —

Perhaps pure, non-reflexive experience — the mere “feel” of sensing and being — is inherent in the universe. Maybe pure experience or elementary consciousness or phenomenal consciousness is not a secondary feature of an objective world but is plainly here — “primary in the strongest sense”.

The world as we find it is no collection of objects per say, it is a “perceptive-experience-of-objects”.

“Conscious experience is self evidently pervasive and existentially primary”.

There is no anything without experience, so maybe it is the very foundation — the essence of the universe.

Keywords & Nodes

• epistemology and ontology
• perspective
• consciousness
• principles
• reality
• RESOURCE The Systems View of Life by Fritjof Capra
• Perceptions are not reality. The mind brings forth a world.
• For deep understanding look for universal patterns.
• Cognition is embodied.
• Gaia Theory states the Earth itself is a single organism.