Gospel Koan 10.5

The Making of Sentience

Koan 10.5

Everything noumenon: 'having been known' and phenomenon: 'having been shown' exists as a conference of difference.

Summary Exposition

The central mechanism dissolves the classical Kantian dichotomy by asserting that both the intelligible ground of a thing (noumenon) and its sensible appearance (phenomenon) are constituted by internal and external relations. A single, potent example is a tree: its noumenal 'treeness' is a conference of its genetic difference from a rock and its biological functions, while its phenomenal appearance is a conference of differential light reflection and perceptual faculties. The implication is that the very categories of reality and appearance are themselves products of this ontological conference of difference. There is no 'thing-in-itself' that stands outside the relational network that defines it.

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