Observation

Everything has as part of its existence both its substance (essence) and its opposite. When thinking of my own being, I must also reflect on my non being. In that you can see the essence. Perhaps a more solid example. If I am thinking of me, there is this me and there is the world which is not me. But I exist in the world, partaking of space and energy and matter. Thus, how one can be who they are and the world at the same time.

What is consciousness or awareness that it can die? And if there is no reality without observation then why isn’t reality all patchy? Maybe there is no absence of observation. We can observe without seeing.

“People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument” Will Rogers

“This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer” Franz Kafka (German Writer of visionary fiction, 1883-1924)