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| contents | <p>https://philpeople.org/profiles/xin-yan-xinyan-zhang</p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Without life, consciousness is impossible; an understanding of life is the only ground for defining or explaining consciousness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>However, the many concepts presupposed by monism or dualism—whether “substance,” “property,” “relation,” or “process”—can define neither life nor consciousness, still less can they explain consciousness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>For this reason, the author constructs a triadic framework centered on a self-consistent, complete, and universally applicable definition of life, interpreting and elucidating <em>being qua being</em> as three irreducible changes: matter, energy, and life.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Within this framework, the paper deduces the definition and explanation of consciousness from multiple dimensions—ontology, epistemology, and semantics:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Consciousness is universal: it is the differentiation between energy and matter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Consciousness is particular: it is the local formalization and differentiation of energy by matter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Consciousness is language without meaning, whereas life is meaning without language.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Within consciousness, the divisions of subject and object, or of self and world, originate from the asymmetry and directionality of life.</span></p> <p><span>Consciousness, as consciousness, lies not merely in matter and energy, but also in life as life—in living toward death. The incompleteness and inconsistency of many theories of consciousness often arise from a fundamental misunderstanding of life, of the organism, and above all, of the human as such.</span></p> <p> </p> |
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| spellingShingle | Triadic Definition and Explanation of Consciousness Zhang, Xinyan <p>https://philpeople.org/profiles/xin-yan-xinyan-zhang</p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Without life, consciousness is impossible; an understanding of life is the only ground for defining or explaining consciousness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>However, the many concepts presupposed by monism or dualism—whether “substance,” “property,” “relation,” or “process”—can define neither life nor consciousness, still less can they explain consciousness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>For this reason, the author constructs a triadic framework centered on a self-consistent, complete, and universally applicable definition of life, interpreting and elucidating <em>being qua being</em> as three irreducible changes: matter, energy, and life.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Within this framework, the paper deduces the definition and explanation of consciousness from multiple dimensions—ontology, epistemology, and semantics:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Consciousness is universal: it is the differentiation between energy and matter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Consciousness is particular: it is the local formalization and differentiation of energy by matter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Consciousness is language without meaning, whereas life is meaning without language.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>• Within consciousness, the divisions of subject and object, or of self and world, originate from the asymmetry and directionality of life.</span></p> <p><span>Consciousness, as consciousness, lies not merely in matter and energy, but also in life as life—in living toward death. The incompleteness and inconsistency of many theories of consciousness often arise from a fundamental misunderstanding of life, of the organism, and above all, of the human as such.</span></p> <p> </p> |
| title | Triadic Definition and Explanation of Consciousness |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20155705 |