The plurality of consciousnesses is a synthesis whose totality remains inconceivable.
Evidence
Thus the original ekstasis is deepened; it appears that we can not make it a part of nothingness. The for-itself has appeared to us as a being which exists in so far as it is not what it is and is what it is not. The ekstatic totality of the mind is not simply a totality detotalized; it appears to us as a shattered being concerning which we can neither say that it exists or that it does not exist. Thus our description has enabled us to satisfy the preliminary conditions which we have posited for any theory about the existence of the Other. The multiplicity of consciousnesses appears to us as a synthesis and not as a collection, but it is a synthesis whose totality is inconceivable. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 806
Categorization
- DEFINE: Specifies what ‘ekstatic totality’ and ‘synthesis whose totality is inconceivable’ mean — a totality that is detotalized rather than merely partial.
- XREF: connects to: A perpetual failed synthesis keeps the in-itself and for-itself inseparable yet independent; Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself; Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A perpetual failed synthesis keeps the in-itself and for-itself inseparable yet independent; Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself; Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified
Broader Connections
- A perpetual failed synthesis keeps the in-itself and for-itself inseparable yet independent
#corroborates(0.82) - Consciousness is a duality that is unity, irreducible to the in-itself
#corroborates(0.78) - Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified
#corroborates(0.72)