[MD] Sobjectivism

[Michael Hamilton]

Hello everyone,

Ian and I have been bandying around the term "new-objectivity" to
describe the objective fact of the subject's participation in Quality
/ reality. It occured to me that it could just as accurately be termed
"new-subjectivity", i.e. the objective fact that reality is
inextricably linked to consciousness and the subject.

Seeing what a mess that last paragraph was, I'd like to suggest a
horrible little piece of terminology in place of "new-objectivity":
"sobjectivity".

Into the "sobjective" category fall qualia: smells, tastes, colours,
the immediate value-experience. The sobjective category also contains
the aesthetic experience of intellectually constructing subjects and
objects, e.g. imagining an atom or imagining a tree falling in a
forest. The thing to realise (and here's where I push the boat out) is
that everything that exists exists in the sobjective realm, for the
sobjective realm is Quality itself. I believe Gav meant the same thing
when he said:

> everything *is* because of consciousness.
> consciousness is the 'space' things exist in; the
> awareness that is a prerequisite for anyting to 'be'.

Regards,
Mike