Abstract of The Quest for Reality(Is Life but a Dream?)| Biomed Grid

The world is not an objective reality, but a solipsistic fact. To put it quite simply. objects have no point of view. The subject alone has a point of view; hence there is no such thing as an objective world, let alone an objective reality. The world and its myriad of things might as well be a dream. Like a dream it arises in the morning as we wake up, and like a dream after waking, it disappears as we go to sleep. But surely, so we protest, the world must exist to all those who are still awake, which must be testimonial to the fact that the world is real and continues to exist when we go to sleep. Although a tempting inference, logically it is untenable, for this is a double premise. Indeed, one cannot have more than one point of view at one and the same time. What is it then that infuses the sense of reality into the imagery of the world and the dream? It can only be one ‘thing': Consciousness. Consciousness is indeed the sine qua non of existence. Consciousness emanates matter and not the other way round. Thus consciousness is to be seen as Primary Reality, while matter can only be regarded as relative, or indeed, ‘parasitical' reality much as are the reflections in the water of a lake. However, the reflective power of consciousness is inherent unlike that of ordinary water, which receives its imagery from its surroundings. Anything that is intermittent cannot be regarded as real. Only something that remains constant and totally unaltered can qualify for reality status. So the prime question here is if consciousness meets these qualifications? In short, is consciousness continuous or intermittent? At first sight it definitely seems to be an intermittent phenomenon for we say of the man, for instance, who suffered a blow to his head and lies there motionless that he is unconscious. Yet when he regains consciousness, we realise that he was only unresponsive to the outside world.