Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified

Evidence

Esu said to them: ‘I have taught you. Two truths can both be true. The world is not always one way. Sometimes the cap is red. Sometimes the cap is white. Both eyes have seen rightly. The trouble was not in the eyes. The trouble was in the certainty.’ — , A Year of World Stories, 4077 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons, or an idea in the mind of God: each of these accounts of it may have its merits, but neither conforms at all closely to the suggestions of common sense. … A mathematician, on the other hand, is working with his own mathematical reality. — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 262 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Physical reality fails to match common sense, while mathematical reality does not — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 262; Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 866; Consciousness’s transcendence is haunted by love, understanding, and dissolved truths — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 18 (+10 more)

Related

• Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously (similarity 0.85)
• Physical reality fails to match common sense, while mathematical reality does not (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Common sense is a fragmentary, incoherent, socially-positioned ‘folklore of philosophy’ #corroborates (0.85)
• Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously #exemplifies (0.80) — , A Year of World Stories, 4077
• Physical reality fails to match common sense, while mathematical reality does not #qualifies (0.75) — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, 262
• Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch #qualifies (0.75)
• Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 866
• Consciousness’s transcendence is haunted by love, understanding, and dissolved truths #expands (0.72) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 18