Silence is Golden

Understand first that consciousness is not an adjunct or property of the physical brain. In fact, the converse is true: the physical body and all material things owe their existence to consciousness. Consciousness is the primordial "stuff"—the pre-existent substrate of all. This counterintuitive, bassackwards, realization is increasingly—and mind-numbingly so for traditional science—surfacing in modern physics and even cognitive psychology. But we're not talking the ordinary, ego-centered, binary logic (e.g., 'things are either A or not-A, but certainly not BOTH A AND not-A') consciousness that every human knows intimately and undeniably. No. We're talking Consciousness-Without-An-Object: Pure, undivided Consciousness. Think about it: isn't it obvious that the scientific method is a system made up in and by consciousness which is useful for the creation and furtherance of human culture? N'cest pas? And culture/civilization is the tool that Life-through-human-consciousness uses for its own agenda, an agenda which split-conscious humans cannot begin to fathom. Take away consciousness and what've you got? Nothing! If you want to say that 'things' exist without conscious perception of them, then be my guest. But realize this: without consciousness any such assertion cannot even be made! This is the case that Kant spun out in the Critique of Pure Reason, to wit: consciousness is like a pair of rose-colored glasses that cannot be removed, and all talk of non-rose-colored reality is meaningless. Wittgenstein said it this way: "Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.". What you see, regardless of its eccentricity, is the doing of consciousness and talk about it is ALSO the doing of consciousness, but one layer removed from direct seeing and thus the property of the mechanics of culture, which is of little use for UNDERSTANDING. Case closed. Be silent. Be happy. Or be ordinary.