humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 26, 12:19 pm, Mark N wrote:

> Is being a unit the same thing as being able to manifest as a unit?

I'm not sure what it means to be able to manifest as a unit.

> Can
> units exist without consciousness?

I think so. Certainly, something can exist without consciousness, and
it's certainly not impossible that that thing could consist of units.
If the Greeks were right that the universe consisted of indivisible
atoms with precise positions in continuous times, then those atoms
would have been units that could exist apart from consciousness.

I could think of a way that the universe could be such that it
contains no units without consciousness. That would require that the
universe be perfectly continuous. I suppose then perhaps "all that
exists" would still be a unit. This seems an awful lot like naval-
gazing to me though.

> What the heck is a unit, anyway?

A unit is anything that can have properties. A "unit" is the thing a
property is a property of.

DS